Could Have Been Stardust

Could Have Been Stardust

Above, the night sky flashed a brilliant burning white. As the forecasted meteor hurtled towards the earth, she barely felt the heat against her long-flushed and reddenned skin. Amidst the screams, wails and prayers rising from below, her drunken heart felt sorry that she could not at least see the stars, the moon, in these final moments.

Her numbness flickered, finally, in the face of the end of everything, and her fingers stumbled and reached for her phone, screen still lit with what had been her final, and only, prayer:

If the world was ending, you’d come over right? Sent 19 hours ago ✔

Everything turned white.

[ SYNOPSIS ]

Many years ago, a celestial meteor was forecasted to eliminate all life on earth. Instead, it shattered upon entering the atmosphere—leaving the planet mostly unharmed, but introducing a strange new frequency into the world. Now, humanity must face two new realities: the powerful secrets created by the meteor, and the very daunting consequences of what they did when they thought the world was ending.

[ PROJECT TAGS ]

NA/Adult. Fantasy Sci-Fi Genre Mashup / Techno-magic Dystopia / Urban Fantasy meets Post-Cyberpunk. Asian (or Asian-inspired) cast. Powers as metaphor for disability or neurodivergence. Estranged friends-to-lovers ft. amnesia.

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the impossible return

god i understand that people pitch stuff this way because 1. thats how publishers want things pitched in this day and age and 2. it's honestly a kind of pitch that the majority of consumers understand much better than, like, an actual description of a thing. but seeing every new work be branded as "[popular media 1] meets [popular media 2] with a [list of marginalized identities] protagonist!" is soooo supremely soulsucking

what a romance writer loves to hear: so, tell me about your two idiots