True story
Records of lives as they were lived, from memoirs and oral history interviews.
1343 scenes
Find scenes of life
True stories, dream stories and folktales, split into single scenes. Find the scene you need, check the rights, and buy the book it belongs to.
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Reviewed stories onlyWe publish only scenes whose source and rights a person has checked.
Search by sceneFind the scene you need by era, place, topic and emotion.
Check the sourceRead the summary and the public excerpt before you buy.
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Newly added scenes that have passed review.
Do you have a manuscript?
Upload it and a person splits it into scenes and reviews it before it goes on the shelf. It is the easiest way to reach creators who need stories.
Upload
Upload a memoir, an oral history or a folktale as TXT, DOCX or PDF. Staff check the rights first.
Split
Staff split the text into scenes while reading the source. If you agreed to external AI processing, AI suggests where to split first.
Review
We check the text against the source, sensitive information, and the rights holder’s approval.
Publish
The summary and public excerpt go on the shelf, and the stories are sold by the book.
For creators and producers
Finding, checking and buying, all in one place.
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Find the one scene you need, not a whole plot. Add the book it belongs to straight to your cart.
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Every book shows what you may do with it in four marks. Commercial use and adaptation are agreed case by case, only for books whose rights holder allows them.
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- Required
- Commercial use
- Case by case or Not allowed
- Adaptation
- Case by case or Not allowed
- AI training
- Not allowed
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Usage: reading the full text and non-commercial reference. Commercial use is agreed case by case within the scope shown for each book.