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When I include those horrors in fiction or gaming, I USUALLY have a supernatural agent behind it because ... it's TOO frightening to know that we can do this crap to ourselves, sometimes even eagerly...

Never heard of that - started writing "Hunter's Moon" at about the same time they started development of the game though. Interesting that the two main characters are Barry and Alan.... The Flash?

On topic - actually had this about 75% written and lost it in a hard drive crash. Three brothers heading up to the lodge they inherited from their father see a blood covered woman in the road. One recognizes her as the wife of the guy he rented the cabin to. She tells them her fiancee - they...

Or make it a comedy. That's what works for Fraser's "The Flashman Papers" (he took a "throwaway" villain, Harry Flashman, from a 1800s novel, Tom Brown's School Days, and gave him a series of novels that have him playing - quite by accident, and usually because he was trying to steal something...

So basically Amazon?

It depends on where you start the story - are they all at the school and flashing back to the backstory, or does it unfold "in real time" from the death of the hereo's parents? Or from his time with Heroine, or his time with Sister and Guardian?

Ah - have another story (stuck on Chapter 3) where the MC (well one of them; its an ensemble story with four MCs and a "sidekick") is an assassin. Actually, I guess I have two, since a Sniper is pretty much an assassin turned into a modern military term, and that was Dane Coleman's MOS as a...

All I know is I've tried writing one twice. Made it to about chapter seven the first time and chapter five the second, but it's not easy to stay inside Michael Gray's headspace long enough to keep going. Though he's not so much "selfish" as "an a-hole who doesn't mind misleading anyone, even...

Hardboiled romance? Are eggs involved?

Varies by story but... Dane Coleman gets a job to support his mother and sister instead of joining the Marines. Never develops he skills needed, and either the Resistance selects someone else to stop the bad guy or he just wins eventually (Digital Cowboy Dane on Pocket FM) Kelly Pierce...

Going with Strange Awakening got 35% Mary Sue. Which, honestly, is about right. Or more 20% Mary Sue, 15% Larry Stu... :D

Whatever she wants to. Face it, who's going to argue with a slime girl?

Not really sure - the LNs I've listened to were all translations. It seems that, the method of translation does make it SEEM like they are doing more "telling" than "showing" but I do think that has more to do with how the language is translated than how it was originally written.

But MY heart is delusional...

Is being a sane person in an insane universe being the unhinged one or the ... ah... hinged one? Define "sensible" in terms of "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters"... and hingedness in terms of Doorman...

It allows the imbiber to understand Morrissey and triggers depressive episodes.

He even carried guns (though DC quickly realized that made him too similar to the pulp hero The Black Bat, who debuted about a week before Batman but in print media, and then came up with a rationale for him to never use them and it became a part of the character that he WON'T) in three stories...

Before ... well, their Strange Awakening, Kelly would have defined "peace" as finally finding the one woman he could settle down with and maybe raising a few kids. Now... they really wouldn't WANT peace. The excitement of adventure, of saving lives and helping people is something they would...

Well, in my pseudo-Western, the MC has a strange but strict code of honor - he does what he believes to be right at all times, is fiercely protective of friends and family, and is only interested in wealth from a survival standpoint, not from a "get rich" point of view. Strange Awakening is, in...

I suspect it would be like when a former employer required all managers to "justify any ratings of 1 or 5 stars" and 90% of the managers would suddenly give out ONE five star per employee, even if they'd been giving them five in all, IIRC, 12 categories they rated (this was in place for about...