Mezzotale is a home for branching stories. Read a scene, choose what happens, and the story goes your way, towards one of its many endings. And for writers, a Studio to make them: each scene a card, each choice a thread to the next.
Free to join. Join now to be first in line as a Founding Reader or Creator.
Plate I. The harbour light, turning.
A scene, a choice, and the story turns. Here is one, reading itself.
The lighthouse has been dark for three nights. Old Maren presses a brass key into your palm. “Someone has to climb it.”
The oars creak. Something large moves beneath the hull.
=== rowboat === # bg: fog.png # music: oars.mp3 # transition: ink-wipe The oars creak. Something large moves beneath the hull. * [Keep rowing] -> island * [Turn back] -> back
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02:14, Antarctica. Your own voice on the radio tells you not to open the door. Then someone knocks.
Play Kestrel StationPlate IV. A story on Mezzotale, in full colour: every picture, sound and choice made for it.
For readers
Mysteries, romances, horrors and fantasies by independent authors, with pictures, music and sound. Every choice you make is remembered.
For writers
Mezzotale Studio is a desktop app for branching stories, no code needed. Play your story through as you write it, then publish it to readers.
Before Mezzotale opens
Before it opens to everyone, Mezzotale opens to a few. Each founding program opens once, for one week, and people on the waitlist are invited before anyone else.
No. I
Write the first stories on Mezzotale. The best are shown first when it opens.
No. II
Read them before anyone else, and decide which ones rise to the top.
Waitlist members are invited first
A minute of your time. We’ll only write about Mezzotale: its founding programs, and when it opens.
Mezzotale · pulled from code · MMXXVI