September Standalone Story Poll

📢 Vote for the Next Standalone Story!

Hey everyone!

It’s time to decide the next standalone story — a one-off you can enjoy in a single sitting, completely separate from the ongoing arcs. I’ve lined up six contenders, each with a very different flavor. To help bring them to life, I’ve also attached a set of AI images I generated as visual references for each concept. Think of them as mood pieces to spark your imagination on where things might go.

As ever, you can vote for several options if you wish. The goal is to publish this standalone at the end of the month. Now it’s your turn to choose which one gets written and released.

1. Can’t Catch Up With Mom

Can't Catch Up With Mom

Alex has been training for years, sweating through workouts, counting every calorie, chasing every gain he can, but no matter how hard he pushes himself, his mother, Monica, races ahead at a speed he can’t fathom. Every workout reveals another change— taller, her muscles denser, her confidence sharper — until the gap between them isn’t just noticeable, it’s humiliating, and every casual flex or smile from Monica is a reminder that Alex will never catch up.

2. The Overnight Conundrum

The Overnight Conundrum

When Ethan spends the night helping his grandmother through what he thought was a simple illness, the morning brings something he cannot explain: Margaret, now looking decades younger, greets him with a body sculpted into a physique beyond any athlete he’s ever seen, chatting as though nothing has changed.

3. The Transfer

The Transfer

Daniel knew the enrollment error weeks before term began and begged his mother to fix it, but she refused, and so he finds himself the lone male student at St. Aurelia’s Academy, where every girl — from quiet, reserved Lena to competitive, sharp-tongued Sofia — seems obsessed with bodybuilding, genetically-enhanced, or both. The longer Daniel stays, the more he suspects the mistake wasn’t a mistake at all.

4. The Neighbor Next Door

The Neighbor Next Door

The first step into his neighbor’s apartment tells Mark something is wrong. In the middle of it all stands Riley, and the smirk on her face makes it clear that in this place she calls home, she isn't just bigger than Mark — she owns him.

5. Family Reunion

Family Reunion

Caleb arrives with his mother to his cousin's birthday party expecting the same awkward chatter as always, but Heather and Joanne, still unmistakably nerdy, are now built like titans, after only weeks of training. After years of being teased by Caleb, they're looking for some payback.

6. The Lab Rat

The Lab Rat

For Elaine, it’s supposed to be routine: another scheduled inspection of the company’s most valuable asset: the CEO’s daughter, Isabelle. She isn’t just a subject under observation; she is the project, the culmination of years of ambition and secrecy,