Draft Eater #WITWContest

When Ari, a sleep-deprived web novelist, wakes up inside their own unfinished manuscript, it's not the swoony fantasy-romance world they expected. Instead, they've landed in the cursed first draft-a land of abandoned subplots, glitching genres, and characters who know they were written dirty. Their brooding prince refuses to break character, their sarcastic assassin has opened a cupcake shop, and the narrator itself has gone rogue. Worst of all, Ari's scrapped self-insert protagonist is back, furious at being deleted.

What follows is a chaotic spiral of baking competitions on battlefields, horror sequences in glitching landscapes, and a final showdown where the only weapon is the ability to edit the story itself. Equal parts absurd comedy and unsettling nightmare, Draft Eater is a one-shot about what happens when your unfinished ideas decide they're tired of being forgotten.