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The ideas drawer.
The stories I've planned but haven't written yet, from a 1994 Seoul rom-com to a game about one soldier with seven bodies, with an honest note on how far along each one is.
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Continue?: A Teen Rom-Com Set in 1994 Seoul
A sixteen-year-old in 1994 Seoul can hit Continue on his own life, and he spends every credit on a girl.
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Synchronicity: Teenage Time Pilots and the Older Self Hunting Them
A secret program sends teenage pilots through time to patch a broken timeline, and the one leading them is being hunted by his own future self.
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I Am Legion: A Game About One Soldier With Seven Bodies
A game design I've worked out on paper, where dying doesn't end the mission, it hands it to the next of your seven bodies.
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Three Short Stories I Haven't Written Yet
A glowing door in the woods, a stranger's stash in a Dubai hotel room, and a man who hears the end of the world and goes back to sleep.
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Post. Like. Rewrite.: A Techno-Thriller About Viral Challenges and an AI From the Future
Viral social media challenges keep knocking out real infrastructure in North Carolina, and the engineer who spots the pattern finds something from the future behind them.
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When I Was Old: A Time-Travel Story About Leaving the Past Alone
An old man who can visit his own past can't stop trying to fix it, and every fix costs more than the last.
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Savestate: A Soldier Who Remembers Every Life He Died In
In an endless war across a cluster of planets, everyone who dies is reborn to fight again, and one soldier is the only one who remembers.
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Story Seeds: The Ideas That Are Still a Paragraph or Two
A spaceship full of loose predators, a world where the rich run out, a trip back to 1997 to fix everything, and two seeds that already grew into something bigger.
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Little Man: A Film That Starts at the Funeral and Ends at Birth
A short film about a father and son, told in reverse. It opens at the son's funeral and walks back, scene by scene, to the night he came home from the hospital.