u/GabMVEMC

My neighbourhood is very cat friendly and I have a few cat neighbours. I'll be walking and hearing a cat cry in distress, but I just turn the corner- and yep, someone picked the cat up already and giving it hugs and kisses. If that wasn't why the cat was crying out in distress to begin with.

Also, there's a lot of freshwater lakes everywhere. Go on google maps and zoom in anywhere inside Canada but especially between Kingston ON and Smith Falls, or Ottawa and Maniwaki, and then going up to Val d'Or. They're everywhere!

Any kind of transformed trains in a scifi or scifi-fantasy adventure context. Five story high, in space, with wings, underwater, on water, weaponized, retrofuturist, made of biomechanics... BUT the story needs to either feature the train a lot or happen on it.

Trains that are just modern subways stuck in a time loop aren't what I'm looking for. Something about the materials or the scale of the tracks, cars, and/or engines need to have changed and the author has fun exploring the implications.

Edit: I've noticed a pattern of authors including trains specifically in their third book in a series. I wonder why.

Tbh I have a specific story in mind I encountered in high school and just didn't think about until now. A girl goes through a portal to another dimension where she's asked to play a game by a charismatic, morally ambiguous guy. She goes back there everyday to play with him but the world becomes more and more dangerous. I don't know the ending. I wish for a story that's as "quirky" but more mature in character design and prose.

Actual games, like board games, in a thriller or horror-mystery context is what I mean by "dark games!" Not erotica, lol. I didn't know how else to describe it.

I'm looking for mind games, board games turned real, weird "Alice in Wonderland" or eery dimensions, and a charismatic romantic interest that the reader isn't sure if they're on the MCs side or not the whole time. Could have cosmic horror mixed in. Could be a romance version of Wizard of Oz.

Bonus points if the lead, the love interest, and the writer are all absolute nerds for games, mechanics, or myths and it shows in the writing like a fantasy version of hard scifi.

I need *more*