Short on purpose
A short story here is one situation, two people and a single turn: a stalled lift, a shared table, a goodbye that keeps not happening. Everything outside that moment is cut. Type the situation and the two characters. The follow-up questions, up to three, stay on the scene itself, such as where it happens, who speaks first and whether it ends with a promise or a parting. Answer them, type your own or skip.
Length, heat and a writer for the scene
Choose about 500 words for a scene that reads in five minutes, or a longer chapter when it needs room. Pyra is selected on this page because she builds slowly and lingers on detail, but Spicy, Onyx and No Writer are right beside her. The heat starts at none and reaches adults-only levels for readers 18 and over. The scene is written in the full writing app on a free account, and if one chapter is not enough, the next remembers every name and every near miss.