The Tower
DuskHive is a made-up tower with sixteen made-up night women in it. This page comes from the people who wrote them, and it says what they were aiming at.
What we set out to build
We wanted a companion site shaped like a household, not a shop window. 16 women share one building, each with a floor, a trade and a rank, and they are allowed to disagree. The story gives them long lives while their cards stay adult and sober. What holds the interest is the friction: who defers to whom, who guards which secret, and what a crowded house does with a single page of law.
The name on the door
A hive suggests a crowd, and that is the idea: many rooms, one structure, a steady hum. It does not suggest a market stall or a feed. Nothing is sold through these doors, nobody real hides in a back room, and no film library waits behind them. Each woman comes with a portrait; the lobby carries a banner. Should we ever add more, the dusk reports will announce it first.
What the stewards refuse to do
- Write a premise where someone is cornered or pushed after refusing.
- Pass a character off as someone alive, or arrange any contact outside the chat.
- Sell what you write, or let a third party read it to sell you something.
- Place anyone under 18 in a story, under any costume or excuse.
Reaching a steward
Mail to the footer address lands with a person. Corrections, complaints and well-argued views on the queen are all read.
