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When her father's failing health forces Dina Caliente into an arranged marriage, she expects to marry someone like Mortimer Goth — and not the elusive Count from Forgotten Hollow.
Suspicions arise and her new husband finally discloses his secret: he's a vampire masquerading within Society, and he'll need Dina's help maintaining the ruse—or they'll both face ruin.
To make matters worse, a high-ranking member of Society not only knows of her new husband's secret, but is actively hunting him!
Pressures mount on all sides, and Dina must navigate this dangerous game of secrecy. Each difficult choice will test both what she wants...and where her loyalty ultimately lies.
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Vladislaus has persisted through the centuries staving off the threat of ennui by adopting various personas, having romantic flings, and taking up new occupations. Yet the one thing he truly desires is the one whom he can’t fully possess.
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“Strangetown is the place then. People are either finding someone or losing someone here.”
Alexander Goth vanishes from Pleasantview.
Vidcund Curious is trying very hard not to think about his disastrous love life, his latest voicemail, or several other problems currently ruining his week.
Then a mysterious woman arrives on his doorstep seeking his help in finding her missing brother, whom she believes disappeared in Strangetown.
Somewhere between the desert, the secrets, and the eccentric locals who call this place home, Cassandra Lothario and Vidcund Curious discover they may be searching for more than a missing person.
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Don Lothario is the new health teacher at Landgraab High – and he’s quickly learning his charm and good looks can’t save him from every mess that crosses his desk! Cassandra Goth, the science teacher across the hall, is especially unimpressed by Don’s tactics.
Between eccentric faculty, chaotic students, and being “voluntold” to mentor an unruly teenager, Don finds himself leaning on the one person who he’s certain can’t stand him: Cassandra.
Will he finally earn her respect or will they discover that tension they share is a different kind of chemistry?
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The history of Forgotten Hollow has been carefully safeguarded throughout the years at the Straud Mansion and Museum. However, in the fortnight before Harvest Fest, the primary curator, Paige Turner, meets a peculiar museum patron who claims the impossible: she is the adult daughter of Count Vladislaus Straud IV.
As interviews, journals, and reconstructed memories begin to surface, Paige finds herself questioning everything she once believed about the town she called home — and several secrets that could alter the legacies of both the Goth and Straud families permanently.
Part 3 of “Blood Money” and “Vampire Dreams of Eternity”
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- Part 4 of Of Blood and Dreams: Nocturnes
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Morty Roth—adventurer, relic liberator, and suburban dad who helps his wife plan dinner parties by night. After bemoaning the failure of a recent mission, he's visited by a mystery woman who seems to know far more about him than she's willing to let on.
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Various Microfics inspired by the Microfic May Bingo Cards of 50 words or less.
Each microfic highlights different characters from The Sims 2:
1. Ripp Grunt - Turbulent
2. Daniel Pleasant - Decorus
3. Tommy Ottomas - Fastidious
4. Alexandra O'Mackey - Heady
5. Trisha Traveller - Winsome
6. Isabella Monty - Penitent
7. Kristin Loste - Acrid -
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Mortimer is hellbent on publishing the Great SimNation novel; his publisher... isn't. Ravenhouse Publishing wants adventure, sex, action... anything that sells.
In a effort to push out the latest manuscript of his masterpiece, Mortimer opts to draft a novella of his worst writing. He expects it will be hated enough that they'll have to accept his magnum opus.
What Mortimer doesn't expect is to have his character talk back to him — or to find out how much he isn't in control....
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“The world forgetting, by the world forgot” by ReticulatedInk
Fandoms: The Sims (Video Games)
01 May 2026
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Bella Goth is still missing. And on the surface, it seems that Mortimer Goth has moved on; but Dina Caliente knows better.
With a promising new treatment offered by Circe and Loki Beaker, Mortimer has the opportunity to let go by erasing those haunting memories permanently. At Dina’s urging — and desperate for relief — he agrees to let Bella go for good.
However, midway through treatment, he questions his choice and scrambles to save whatever scraps he can of Bella before she’s gone forever.
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Daniel wanted a normal, happy life. The problem? ‘Normal’ was never fated for Daniel and Mary-Sue Pleasant’s life.
As Kaylynn Langerak is held for questioning in the aftermath of Daniel's death, the truth of something far older than any of them begins to surface — and the people who brought it to Pleasantview.
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With the Rapture about to descend on Pleasantview, Angel!Mortimer must guide enough souls to redemption before the Judgement arrives. But when Daeva!Bella also appears on the scene to sabotage his efforts – and rekindle old flames between them – failure becomes the less dangerous outcome. Will Mortimer remain virtuous…or fall from grace?
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Taking on a job beneath her dignity, Dina Caliente finds herself working at a local coffee shop in SimCity to make ends meet. A switch to the night shift brings different customers and different potential romantic prospects!
And then there’s the eccentric night regular who visits the shop to only ever order a cup of hot water...
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She awakens in the lab of Loki and Circe Beaker, where they insist she is someone she does not remember. She is a clone — and the key to their triumph.
Nervous Subject, the Beakers' reluctant and subservient ward, must play the part of accomplice to their bidding. His task? Educate this new Bella Goth to infiltrate their rival's secret lab.
While Nervous grows closer to the clone, they both dare to dream of something dangerous: escape.
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Mortimer’s insistent belief in vampires puts him at odds with nearly everyone in his life - even reluctantly drawing him back into that forbidden world he cannot forget. Bella wants to support her husband, but finds she is caught between fidelity and the temptations of desire. Dina Caliente has reinvented her image in Bluewater Village, hoping to hide from the memories that haunt her from Forgotten Hollow. And Vladislaus Straud is nowhere to be found — missing in action yet his presence is felt everywhere.
Meanwhile, rumors swirl through Bluewater Village of vampire sightings as Malcolm Landgraab IV seeks to expand his real estate empire.
How long can they outrun the past before they must face ambition, desire, and fate?
Sequel to “Blood Money”
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- Part 2 of Of Blood and Dreams: Nocturnes
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Doubling Down on Daniel Pleasant by ReticulatedInk for Zeldan
Fandoms: The Sims (Video Games)
07 Feb 2026
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What happens when a well-intentioned friend asks her retired mad scientist father to clone a better version of a narcissistic, cheating husband?
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Daniel Pleasant finds new ways to love himself a little too much.
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Obsessive Thoughts* (*and why you shouldn't stand under a vampire's balcony) by ReticulatedInk
Fandoms: The Sims (Video Games)
06 Feb 2026
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Cut/alternate scene from Chapter 12 of Vampire Dreams of Eternity. Vladislaus's mind turns to the one he can't have. Unexpected results ensue.
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- Part 3 of Of Blood and Dreams: Nocturnes
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Dina Caliente is looking for her next meal ticket in the form of a rich husband.
Vladislaus Straud is looking to secure his legacy by creating a new vampire protégé.The problem? They both want Mortimer Goth for the job.
What begins as a contest of seduction and control quickly turns into a dangerous game of manipulation, obsession, and power. Will Dina and Vlad discover that outplaying each other may come at a cost neither of them anticipated?
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- Part 1 of Of Blood and Dreams: Nocturnes
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One minute she's stargazing on Don Lothario's rooftop, the next minute Bella Goth is hurtling through space and time. Will her journey bring her back home or will she find a new life out there in another universe?
A loose homage to Homer's epic The Odyssey. Lots of hero's journey, fewer sea monsters.
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12 Stories: It's a Sims-derful Christmas by ReticulatedInk
Fandoms: The Sims (Video Games)
24 Dec 2025
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The holiday season is upon us in the SimCity region! From messy misunderstandings in Pleasantview to frolicking in the snow out in Oasis Springs to unexpected sabotage near Bluewater Village, nothing is ever simple – and everything is on the brink of chaos! How will our residents find the spirit to make this an unforgettable and heartfelt holiday season?
Table of Contents (Fic Prompt, Title, Main Character)
1. Decorating: "How the Landgraab Nabbed Christmas" -- Malcolm Landgraab IV
2. Build a Snowman: "To Build a Snowman" -- The Pleasants
3. Gift Exchange: "The Girl From the Halls" -- The Goths
4. Christmas Music: "Last Whamaggedon" -- Mary-Sue Pleasant
5. Matching PJs: "In Matching Christmas Pajamas" -- Brandi Broke
6. Ice Skating: "Giving the Slip" -- Geoffrey Landgraab
7. Mistletoe: "Under the Mistletoe" -- Lucy Burb
8. Blanket Fort: "Blanket Fort" - Dustin Broke
9. Snowed In: “Almost Home for the Holidays” - Johnny Zest and the Landgraabs
10. Snowball Fight: "Snowball Fight, Interruptus" - Mortimer Goth/Dina Caliente
11. Cuddling by a Fire: “Fireside Chat” - John & Jennifer Burb
12. Sledding: "Oh, What Fun It Is To Ride!" - Alexander Goth -
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Nothing is as it seems in the pleasant suburbs of SimCity. Secrets are a hot commodity: they can wreck a marriage, fuel the ascension of a politician’s vendetta, sabotage a scientist on the quest for immortality, or pave the way for vampires to quietly infiltrate a community. Will Pleasantview’s cornerstone families expose the truth or be consumed by the darkness?
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- Part 1 of Beneath Twilight, Within Shadows