Get ready to do a “Choose your own (spooky) adventure” again this year!

Hey everyone! On October 1st, get ready to jump back in on my annual Halloween serial “interactive” fiction!

How does it work? Why the scare quotes? Well, I’ll put up a proper instructions post the night before, but in the meantime you can read 2024’s instruction post for full details of how this works. It’s not traditional pre-written, video game-style Interactive Fiction — rather, it’s a live story where you help make the choices! (Think old forum “Quest” threads.)

But, to summarize: I put up a section, YOU make suggestions for the protagonist, and then I write the next section taking those suggestions into consideration (along with the protagonist’s established personality, abilities, and resources). Most sections are around 1000 words, and by the end you’ll have both read and helped drive a story to its conclusion!

This year’s is going to be a bit of an unnerving haunted house story, with the protagonist uncovering dark secrets and having to make difficult choices about the things they learn and people they encounter. (And of course, it’ll be queer.)

While you get ready, feel free to take a look through our “Interactive fictions” from previous years, or check out my other books 🙂