Journeys Across Time and Consciousness in BL
These short BL stories offer glimpses into worlds both familiar and unknown. They are not complete narratives but rather moments captured mid-scene, pages torn from larger books, or whispers of what might be. Each fragment invites your imagination to fill in the gaps, to ponder the events that led to these instances, and to envision the destinies that await.
This collection represents an experimental program at the intersection of human creativity, interdisciplinary arts, and applied artificial intelligence research. It explores how digital tools can act as a partner in the writing process, shaping new forms of storytelling, scriptwriting, and enhancing digital literacy skills and workflows, all stemming from a profound love for BL stories.
This collection spans diverse genres, ranging from the immediate drama of Contemporary Campus BL and the emotional depths of Hurt/Comfort BL, to the speculative realms of Reincarnation/Transmigration BL and Sci-Fi BL, alongside the quiet beauty of Slice of Life BL. Within these pages, you will find pieces crafted by authors Leaf Richards and Jamie F. Bell.
We invite you to explore these tales not just as a reader, but as a co-creator, completing the narrative arcs within the canvas of your own mind.
Today’s BL Short Stories
Forced Proximity
Author: Leaf Richards | Category: Espionage / Spy Fiction | Genre: Contemporary Campus BL
Kakeru and Asahi are seated at a communal study table in the university library, a mountain of textbooks and project notes between them. The air is thick with unspoken history, punctuated by the rustle of papers and the low hum of the library.
The Unraveling Silk
Category: Family Saga | Genre: Hurt/Comfort BL
On a cool spring evening, a teenage Owen stands on a hotel balcony, visibly shaken after a public encounter with his father. The city lights stretch below, a distant hum of traffic providing a muted backdrop to his internal turmoil. Sena joins him, observing the cracks in Owen’s usual stoicism.
The Frozen River Crossing
Author: Leaf Richards | Category: Satire | Genre: Reincarnation/Transmigration BL
Rhys, a young man transmigrated into a melodramatic fantasy novel, is desperately attempting to cross a dangerous, partially frozen river to escape a farcical arranged marriage. He is caught mid-crossing by Julian, the stoic and intensely focused ‘villain’ of the novel, who has unexpectedly fixated on Rhys instead of the original protagonist.
“Look At Me”
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Contemporary Fiction | Genre: Sci-Fi BL
On a heavy, humid evening in a coastal reclamation zone, two boys walk the shoreline. The atmosphere is thick with impending rain and the hum of atmospheric scrubbers. They are hours away from a permanent separation.
The Yellow Parking Ticket
Author: Jamie F. Bell | Category: Popular Culture | Genre: Slice of Life BL
The interior of a car parked on a snowy street and a shared apartment full of concert posters and unfinished graphic design projects.
Storytelling and the Arts, Skills Development and Digital Transformation
AI-Assisted Scriptwriting: Our team at the incubator explores AI’s role in creative development by analyzing its capacity to handle the specific narrative challenges presented by genres such as Contemporary Campus BL, Hurt/Comfort BL, Reincarnation/Transmigration BL, Sci-Fi BL, and Slice of Life BL. We’re studying how AI aids in crafting intricate world-building for sci-fi, managing complex character continuity for reincarnation stories, developing authentic emotional arcs for hurt/comfort narratives, and generating nuanced dialogue for campus and slice-of-life settings, thereby enhancing the storytelling and scriptwriting process across diverse themes.
Talent Development and Training: The process of developing these diverse genre chapters serves as a crucial case study in understanding the evolving skills creative professionals need for the digital age. This work emphasizes the importance of digital literacy in effectively interacting with and managing AI tools, such as refining AI-generated plot points and character interactions. It directly informs how future digital publishing and film production workflows will operate, requiring professionals to expertly blend human creativity with AI’s generative capabilities.
We’re excited to learn about these new technologies and how they can be applied to expand the boundaries of human storytelling. We encourage you to keep reading, keep imagining, and keep exploring the incredible potential that opens up when creativity meets technology.
BL Stories. Unbound
By design, these short BL story chapters have no definitive beginning and no end. Many of the resulting BL stories—exploring intimacy, deep commitment, and the gravity of desire—are fictional, but many others are not. They are evocative story snapshots from worlds that never fully exist, designed to engage you, the reader, and invite you to imagine the profound connection that comes before and what happens next in these boundary-pushing narratives. We had fun exploring this creative research project, and we hope you will enjoy this unique experience in digital literature.
The BL Stories. Unbound collection is an interdisciplinary arts and narrative storytelling experiment. It is part of a creative arts and research program by The Arts Incubator Winnipeg and the Art Borups Corners collectives. This project focuses on two key areas: AI-Assisted Scriptwriting, exploring AI for generating ideas, plot structures, and alternative story arcs; and Talent Development and Training, studying the skills and training needs for creative professionals managing AI and immersive technologies to inform future training curricula. Funding and support were generously provided by the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects program and the Government of Ontario. We thank them for supporting the arts, digital transformation, and applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) research for northern innovation in Ontario.
