Threshold: Mirrors & Smoke
Threshold: Mirrors & Smoke
A noir thriller creative writing game for students, storytellers and teachers.
The rain hasn’t stopped in days.
A deal went wrong.
Someone’s watching you — and you don’t know why.
Threshold: Mirrors & Smoke drops you into a city of shadows, double-crosses and half-truths. Every choice you make shapes the story: who you trust, what you risk and whether you can make it out with your life (and your soul) intact.
Choose your character, explore dangerous corners of the city and face conflicts that test loyalty, morality and survival. Your mission? Write to uncover the truth — and live with what you find.
🕵️♂️ What’s Included:
- 16-page PDF story-building guide
- Noir-themed character creation tools
- Setting and conflict generators steeped in mystery and danger
- Story structure & descriptive writing support
- Supporting characters, prompts & ideas
- Fully flexible for classrooms, solo writers and workshops
🌟 Why I’m Excited to Share This
Noir stories thrive on atmosphere, moral complexity and slow-burn tension — perfect for helping writers hone description, pacing and character motivation.
Whether you’re playing solo, running it in a classroom, or using it to break writer’s block, Mirrors & Smoke will push you to explore the darker corners of your imagination.
💡 A Note on Sharing
This is a personal-use product — it took time, imagination and care to make. If you enjoy it, please don’t share copies around. Instead, direct others to inkwelleducation.com where they can support creative education too.
I made it affordable because I want lots of people to enjoy it — please support me in that rationale by sharing the link, not the file.
If you're a teacher and want to print a bunch for your class, please do... but maybe throw an extra few bucks my way if you can.
A Note on Printing the A5 Booklet
- Use A4 or Letter size paper
- Print double-sided, flip on short edge
- Choose “booklet layout” or manually fold and staple after printing
