In a library, shelf space is life. More space means more genre popularity, and more genre popularity means a higher chance that your book will be read. Without readership, a book dies, and all its characters die with it.

Your book. Your character.

To prevent this, the seven main fiction genres created their own gangs.

• Anecdotes [General fiction]
• Detectives [Mystery]
• Fantoms [Fantasy]
• Profs [Sci-Fi]
• Sketches [Comics, Web comics]
• Terrors [Horror]
• Thrills & Chills [Thriller, Mystery]

Using whatever means they deem fit, they recruit members, protect their territories, sabotage the other gangs' efforts, and attack their enemy genres. Alliances formed. Sub-groups appeared. Each group has their own agenda, but ultimately they all want the same thing: Shelf Space.