Writer Policy
Tale Treasury is built for readers of different ages, including families and younger audiences. Writers can publish mature themes when appropriate, but graphic adult content and explicit erotic storytelling are not allowed on this platform.
How To Choose
Select the audience level that matches the tale's strongest scenes, emotional weight, and overall reading maturity. Use the guide below when choosing between All Ages, kids, teen, and adult ranges.
Tales suitable for readers of all ages. These stories are wholesome, gentle, and universally appropriate, with themes that can be enjoyed by both children and adults.
Choose This When
Choose this when your tale stays safe, soft, and comfortable for families, classrooms, and mixed-age readers.
Very light tales written in simple language with gentle themes and clear, easy-to-understand lessons. No horror, romance, or disturbing scenes. Best suited for young children.
Choose This When
Choose this when the story is made for younger children and avoids fear, romance, heavy sadness, and dark tension.
Slightly more developed tales with mild adventure, emotional moments, and simple conflict. May include light suspense, fantasy danger, or small sad moments, but nothing intense, frightening, or graphic.
Choose This When
Choose this when the tale adds light adventure or emotion, but still remains clearly child-safe and easy to process.
Tales with stronger emotional themes, deeper conflict, and more complex characters. May include mild romance, suspense, darker fantasy elements, or emotional struggles, while remaining free from graphic violence and explicit adult material.
Choose This When
Choose this when the tone becomes more serious or emotionally layered, but still avoids graphic intensity.
More intense tales with darker themes and stronger emotional depth. May include moderate horror, betrayal, revenge, trauma, deeper romance, and serious moral conflict. Suitable for older teen readers.
Choose This When
Choose this when the story carries heavier themes, sharper fear, stronger trauma, or more mature emotional conflict.
Tales intended for adult readers due to mature and potentially disturbing themes. May include strong horror, violence, abuse, psychological darkness, and complex adult subject matter. Tales containing graphic adult content are not permitted.
Choose This When
Choose this only when the tale is clearly for adults because of dark or disturbing subject matter, not because it contains erotic or explicit sexual material.
How The Selector Works
All Ages is exclusive
Use All Ages only when the whole tale is truly safe for everyone. It should not be combined with teen or adult levels.
7+ and 10+ can work as a pair
Use 7+ or 10+ on their own, or combine them when the tale sits between younger kids and older kids without moving into teen territory.
13+ and 16+ can work as a pair
Use 13+ or 16+ on their own, or combine them when the tale fits teen readers but lands between early-teen and mature-teen intensity.
18+ Mature Themes is exclusive
Use 18+ only when the story is clearly for adults because of dark, disturbing, or psychologically heavy material. It is not a mix-and-match label.
Simple Examples
Final Rule
If you are choosing between two audience levels, use the more protective option. On Tale Treasury, it is better to slightly overprotect younger readers than to under-label a stronger tale.
Not Allowed
Even when a tale is marked 18+, it must not contain graphic sexual content, explicit sexual acts, pornographic scenes, or erotic material. On Tale Treasury, 18+ is for mature themes, not explicit adult content.
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