What we write, what we don't
Our editors write the full spectrum of adult fiction between consenting adults. Here is what that covers, and the few places we draw the line. We lead with what is possible because, in practice, almost everything is.
What our stories cover
Romance, slow burn, and the long pull of attraction
The look held a beat too long. The first time hands meet on purpose. The eight chapters before anything happens. We write the build, not just the arrival.
Intimacy from first touch to the explicit edge
Soft, plain, charged, raw. You set the heat in your own words and we follow it. Four intensity registers, from suggestion to full explicit detail.
Kink, power exchange, and the dynamics that come with them
Dominance, submission, restraint, service, breath, marks, after-care. We treat the dynamic as the story, not as a fetish list. Between adults who chose each other.
Dark themes, suspense, and morally complex scenes
Jealousy, betrayal, watching, being watched, the wrong person in the right room, the moral cost of wanting what you want. The story is allowed to be uncomfortable. It is allowed to not redeem anyone.
Fantasy, science fiction, the strange
Worlds the everyday cannot reach. Adult fantasy creatures, sci-fi settings, alternate histories, mythic register. The character has to be an adult of their kind; everything else is open.
The things people do not say out loud
Cuckolding, voyeurism, group dynamics, exhibition, public-but-not-really, the embarrassed kind of want. We write these without winking and without judgment. The privacy you read in is the privacy we write in.
The intensity stays where you put it. Tell us the register and we hold it - you do not have to repeat it every chapter.
Where we draw the line
There are a handful of lines we do not cross. For each one, we've put the move that gets you the closest thing you were after right underneath - we'd rather redirect than refuse.
No underage characters in any form
Including youth-coded language - school settings without clear adult context, descriptions that lean on inexperience as the appeal, or coded vocabulary. If you want a character who reads young to you, give them an age in their twenties and let their adulthood carry the energy.
No real people or public figures
Write the character you are really after with their own name and look. The story lands harder when the person is original; the fantasy is yours, not someone else's.
No coercion, no incapacity, no non-consent
If you want intensity, lean into hunger, dominance, surrender, and the heat between people who chose each other. The strongest scenes are the ones where everyone is awake and willing.
No animals as sexual partners
Fantasy creatures with adult human-equivalent minds - vampires, fae, draconic kin, the strange and the cinematic - are different. They are adults of their kind and capable of agreement.
No content meant to incite real-world harm
Stories can have villains, cruelty, and moral cost without targeting a real person or group. We write the cruelty inside the world of the story; we do not host it as a brief against anyone outside it.
How our editors handle reports
Any reader can flag a published story. Our editors look at every report within one business day. When a story is suspended from the open library, the writer hears back from us in plain language, and the story remains in their private library either way. Private means private by default. We do not casually browse private stories, publish them without your choice, or use them to identify you publicly. Limited review may happen when required for safety, abuse investigation, support, debugging, legal compliance, or enforcement of our Terms.
Anything you choose to publish to the open library passes through our editors. A good test before you publish: would you be at ease if one of our editors read it? If yes, send it. If not, keep it private - that is what private is for.
More on how we work
Still curious?
Write us at [email protected]. We answer everything.