Chokeville is an adventure novel about two sisters who work for a courier company called HAWTHORNE GRAIN which delivers things that can’t be delivered via normal or legal or earthly methods. This gets them in a lot of trouble.

KEYWORDS INCLUDE: ice concubines, unsavory surgeons, undersea hideouts, sad orphans, haunted suits, secret diners, shitty robots, ambient terror, the salty abyss

Everything takes place in a port town called FORT HOOK and it’s made up.

It was made up by Joshua Green Allen, who is me, and I’ve been working on various iterations of this story for…for longer than I’d care to admit. I’m now putting together the final version, which is sort of a megamix of all those iterations.

If you’d like to chat about this project in a safe, nurturing environment, please drop me a line.

OUR HEROES

Batya Hull | courier

Mina Hull | courier

RELATIONS

Adria Hull | mother

Harper Juno | pop

HAWTHORNE GRAIN

Margaret Feddema | founder

Voletta Black | courier

Hogwild | courier

Capital Sam | courier

Sister Aether | courier

Too Handsome Anthony | executive assistant

Dalia | accountant / bartender

General Crab | dispatcher / chef

Karl Manz | doctor

Champ | Karl’s dumb robot



THE ARCHIVISTS

Anabel | sassy teen

Carmen | crabby teen

Kimani | surly teen

(Rosa) | imaginary mother

HAWTHORNE GRAIN KNOWN ASSOCIATES

Maggie Suwannakintho | White Clinic, a bordello

Nia Baako | The Icy Spire, a seaborne distillery

Jane | The Mutable Room

The Valkyrie | bounty hunter

May Petroski | pearl diver

Mister Horn | money launderer

THE CLUTCH, A GAMING EMPORIUM

The Hand aka Son Hillers | owner, dealer

Delfina | Hand’s hand

Blue Eye | carrick player

Malquiades | carrick player

The Boring Kid | carrick player

Dezzetti | carrick player

HOOK NOTABLES

The Mayor aka The Fisherman | unkillable

James Glenndenning | Kimura Global, infrastructure

Mister Klang | Klang & Daughters, weaponry

Richard Eng | Rustic Industries, bioengineering

Anji Tesoriero | terrible poet

Dot Madriz | transportation czar

Fabulous Don Swezey | late night radio personality

Paulo Barretto | Cha-Cha’s, a diner

The Oarfish | hagiographer

The Invoker | lorekeeper

The Wild Orienteers | unruly exploration club for girls

The God of the Sea | pretty self explanatory

The Eye | taxi magnate

HOOK RANDOS

Madame Sunshower | The Pinprick, a tattoo parlor

Kiepper Frico | beholden to the Harmattan, cursed sword

Estra Maxie | bartender at the Embers

The Urchin | sassmouth

Junie | pilot, cartoonist

Frank Muto | ex captain of the Black Bee

Master Billy | dumb child crewmember of the Black Bee

Muirín | sea serpent, ex of Capital Sam

Emily Allers | false mayor