Guidelines

Everything here is read by a person before it appears. These are the things that person is looking for.

Write your own work

Post only what you wrote yourself. Not a story from another site, not something a friend sent you, not something a machine produced for you. If it is not yours, it does not go up.

Everyone is an adult, and everyone is invented

Every character must be eighteen or older, and must be fictional. Do not write about a real, identifiable person — not a colleague, not an ex, not someone famous. Change the details until nobody can be found in them.

Say what the story is

Pick the category that fits and write a summary that tells a reader what they are walking into. A title that misleads people into a story they did not want is worse than a plain one.

Series belong together

If a story runs to several parts, give every part the same series name and number them. Readers who find part three should be able to get to part one in a click.

No advertising

No links to other sites in the body of a story, no affiliate codes, no promotion of anything. Write the story.

What happens after you submit

An editor reads it. If it goes up, you get an email with the link. If it comes back, you get an email saying why, and the story returns to your drafts so you can change it and send it again. Nothing is deleted behind your back.