Stories by @civairot

Abarat

In a world where time itself is geography, a teenage girl named Candy Quackenbush discovers a doorway to the Abarat—a vast archipelago of twenty-five islands, each frozen in a different hour of the day. Pulled from her mundane life in Minnesota, Candy finds herself caught between wonder and danger as she explores islands of perpetual midnight, golden noon, and everything between. Hunted by the sinister Boa, a shape-shifting creature serving dark forces, Candy must navigate this dreamlike realm and uncover her own mysterious connection to the Abarat's fate. Alongside eccentric allies—a philosophical sea captain, a shape-shifting friend, and magical inhabitants—she discovers that her arrival is no accident. As shadows from the Abarat's darkest hours threaten to consume all the islands, Candy must embrace her hidden power to prevent catastrophe and find her true place in this extraordinary world.

Song of Achilles

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller retells the story of the Trojan War from the perspective of Patroclus, focusing on his deep, lifelong love and relationship with the demigad hero Achilles, transforming the epic myth into a personal tragedy about love, destiny, pride, and loss, culminating in their fated deaths at Troy. It covers their childhood, training, the war's horrors, Patroclus's death in Achilles' armor, and Achilles' subsequent grief-fueled revenge and death, ending with their reunion in the underworld.

The Kiss Quotient

"Stella loves math and solving puzzles, but she does not like being touched. She has a high functioning form of autism that makes her sensitive to touch, smells, and sounds, and it causes her to be obsessive over her work. When Stella decides to overcome her fear through practice with a male escort, she analyzes the selection of men and chooses Michael. Michael is a handsome man with emotional scars and expensive bills to pay for his family, and he has never had a connection with a client- until Stella. The Kiss Quotient is the story of Stella and Michael learning to overcome their insecurities and discovering that the little things are what make you special. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella love is the best kind of logic…"

Final Fantasy XIV

A limited series expanding on the story arcs within the game universe

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Feyre Archeron, a 19-year-old huntress, is kidnapped and taken to the faerie realm of Prythian. When Feyre accidentally kills a fairy named Andras while hunting, she finds herself on the wrong side of the human and faerie border. As retribution, a High Lord named Tamlin takes Feyre to Prythian, where she must choose between dying or living as a human prisoner. Feyre chooses to live and discovers that everything she thought she knew about faeries is wrong. She navigates the politics of the faerie courts and uncovers dark forces that could threaten both realms. Feyre's feelings for Tamlin also evolve from hostility to passion, and she eventually transforms into a High Fae, which symbolizes the transformative power of love

Hotel Magnifique

All her life, Jani has dreamed of Elsewhere. Just barely scraping by with her job at a tannery, she’s resigned to a dreary life in the port town of Durc, caring for her younger sister Zosa. That is, until the Hotel Magnifique comes to town.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

An inexperienced young adventurer becomes the key to unraveling an ancient mystery when he joins up with a group of daredevil explorers to find the legendary lost empire of Atlantis. A naive-but-determined museum cartographer Milo Thatch, dreams of completing the quest begun by his late grandfather, a famous explorer. When a journal surfaces, an eccentric billionaire funds an expedition and the action shifts to high gear.

Alice Isn't Dead

Keisha Lewis mourned the loss of her wife, Alice, who disappeared two years ago. There was a search, there was grief beyond what she thought was possible. There was a funeral. But then Keisha began to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn’t dead. And she is showing up at the scene of every tragedy in the country. Keisha shrugs off her old life and hits the road as a trucker – hoping on some level that travelling the length of the country will lead her to the person she loves. What she finds are buried crimes and monsters (both human and unimaginable), government conspiracies, haunted service stations and a darkness far older than the highway system it lies beneath. Cast in the fluorescent lights of midnight diner-signs, this story is as big as the open road and as intimate as the darkness of a trucker’s cab: perfect for fans of Stephen King, Serial, Twin Peaks and American Gods

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

This live-action Disney adventure follows disfigured Quasimodo, the bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, who bides his time locked away in a tower. With only gargoyles to keep him company, Quasimodo longs to be with other people, leading to his chance encounter with the enchanting Gypsy Esmeralda. When the beautiful young woman catches the attention of Quasimodo's guardian, sinister Frollo, Quasimodo must help to keep her out of his clutches

Disenchantment

Live-action reboot of Matt Groening's "Disenchantment" series, following follows the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo and personal demon Luci, in the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland

The Magnus Archives

Join Jonathan Sims, newly appointed head archivist of The Magnus Institute, as he attempts to bring a seemingly neglected collection of supernatural statements up to date by converting them to audio and supplementing them with follow-up work from his small but dedicated team. Individually, the statements are unsettling. Together they begin to form a picture that is truly horrifying because as they look into the depths of the archives, something starts to look back…

Rocket Power

Rocket Power revolves around the day-to-day adventures of a gang of four young friends; the adventurous and vain sports enthusiast and perfectionist: Oswald "Otto" Rocket; his tomboyish and kind-hearted older sister: Regina "Reggie" Rocket; the brainy newcomer and techno whiz kid who moves from Kansas in the first episode: Sam "Squid" Dullard; and Otto's dim-witted but loyal best friend and videographer: Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez— who live in the fictional beach community of Ocean Shores, California, where they spend their free time playing extreme sports, getting into various situations and overcoming the trials and challenges of growing up.

The Wild Thornberrys

A live-action reboot of the Nickelodeon favorite, "The Wild Thornberrys"

Twilight

Catherine Hardwick returns to direct a miniseries masterfully interweaving plots of the original Twilight and Life and Death series. In this darker retelling, 17-year-old Bella Swan has just moved to Forks, Washington. Busy adjusting to her new life and reconnecting to her childhood friend, Jules, horrific animal attacks and disappearances begin plaguing the small town, and she finds herself in the middle of a dark secret when she meets Edward Cullen. This series focuses more on the mystery of a town beleaguered by supernatural attacks, and builds on the perspective of characters' individual narratives to create a rich retelling of a well-loved and iconic story.