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Firelight Prose

The story slate

Help us choose
what we write next.

We’re deciding which worlds to build next. These five spotlights are drawn from the nine-pitch reader docket—create your Firelight account to mark every story you’d want to read, and hear when a winner is ready.

Your vote is a signal—not a promise—but it genuinely shapes what we make. All nine pitches are waiting on the ballot.

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  1. A Tudor book smuggler studies a ledger while a watchful clerk waits in the doorway.

    Tudor · Enemies-to-lovers

    Burn This Letter

    Smuggle forbidden books for Anne Boleyn while the quiet new clerk watches for the lie that could hang you both.

  2. Pearl farmers work from a sunlit raft while a traveling surfer watches from a skiff.

    Pearl coast · Grief romance

    The Luster Line

    Return to your family's failing pearl farm and meet the haunted surfer hiding why he really came.

  3. A dragon-bonded healer leans over an injured man as a dragon's silhouette looms through the rain.

    Romantasy · Fated bond

    A Grief of Dragons

    A grieving dragon binds your feelings to a stranger—and honesty may be the only way either of you survives it.

  4. A woman warming her hands around a mug looks toward a weathered carpenter in a coastal diner.

    Coastal Maine · Second chance

    The Annealing

    Restore a lighthouse lens beside the carpenter whose beautiful rebuild hides a secret as dangerous as yours.

  5. A hidden Belle Époque artist studies her work beside a famous master and a severe critic.

    Belle Époque · Hidden identity

    The Verdigris Hour

    Claim your own work while an anonymous critic hunts for the true artist behind a famous master's name.