Catégorie : story

  • Hijack

    One pitch a day: in August of 2011, I dedicate twenty minutes each day to writing an « elevator pitch » for a story or a game. In prehistoric times, an alien civilization nudges humankind forward on the evolutionary path, then retreats to other regions of space to enjoy different flavors of life. Events unfold mechanically from…

  • Old sin

    One pitch a day: in August of 2011, I dedicate twenty minutes each day to writing an « elevator pitch » for a story or a game. A woman courts and marries a man who is the right hand of an organized crime overlord. She does so because a shadowy source told her her sister has been…

  • Groundhog World

    One pitch a day: in August of 2011, I dedicate twenty minutes each day to writing an « elevator pitch » for a story or a game. At six o’clock in the morning, Universal Time, time rewinds back to the day before. Everybody in the world experiences that return to the day before. Memories remain. Humanity relives…

  • The plane game

    One pitch a day: in August of 2011, I dedicate twenty minutes each day to writing an « elevator pitch » for a story or a game. A young woman in Africa dreams of living in Europe. Every day, she sits on a chair by the window and pretends she is a passenger in a plane. She…

  • Strange comrades

    One pitch a day: in August of 2011, I dedicate twenty minutes each day to writing an « elevator pitch » for a story or a game. For decades, a branch of the Russian government has been subcontracting to a shadow partner the maintenance and operation of a secret prison. The inmates are all supernatural creatures, sentient…