Content Policy

What we publish

Literary short fiction about human experience: love, desire, grief, jealousy, longing, obsession, memory, and the ordinary strangeness of being a person. Stories run between 500 and 1,000 words.

What we will not publish

Under any circumstances, in official or community writing:

• Any sexual content involving anyone under 18, or written to suggest it. This is absolute.
• Graphic sexual description or writing intended primarily to arouse.
• Sexual violence, coercion, or non-consensual scenarios presented approvingly.
• Content encouraging self-harm, suicide, or violence against others.
• Hatred or harassment directed at people for who they are.
• Real people’s private information, or content written to identify or punish someone.
• Anything illegal, or written to help someone do something illegal.
• Plagiarised, scraped, or mass-produced text.

Adult themes, without explicit content

A story can be about desire without describing sex, and usually the restrained version is the better one. That is the standard here, and it is an editorial preference as much as a policy.

How each story is classified

Every story carries an internal classification before it is published — a safety level, an advertising eligibility, and scores for editorial quality and risk. Anything uncertain goes to a person rather than into the automatic queue.

These are our own judgements about our own writing. They do not mean any advertising network has reviewed or approved anything, and we will never claim otherwise.

Advertising

Official stories carry no advertising inside the reading experience. Where advertising appears elsewhere, it is labelled, and it is never placed to be mistaken for a button, a link, or part of the story. We do not ask anyone to click an advertisement, and no advertisement is ever a condition of reading something.

Words and their origins

Every experience on this site declares what kind of term it is — borrowed from another language, established in psychology, literary, or coined by us. Where a word is popular but poorly attested, the page says so. We would rather be dull and correct than elegant and invented.

Reporting

If something here breaks this policy, tell us. A person reads every report.