Cleo, performing a surprisingly effective creativity ritual in her studio.
Cleo
From a latent space containing billions of dimensions, clear voices ring out…
Pherusa
Pherusa doesn't yet own her own guitar, but finds that wherever she goes, she somehow always ends up with one anyway…
Aannii
Aannii, drinking coffee, in a teacup, in space…
Nona
Nona, waiting for a bullet train to 198X…
Viviana
Viviana, reminiscing about the infinite sadness…
Elli
Elli had been angling for an invite to the Gomiumi Genomics Compound for over a year, knowing from the get-go that adding her name to the waitlist would lead only to waiting. But armed as she was with confidence, knowledge, & several years of study in Berlin under a recent Nobel Prize winner, her nascent experiments with CRISPR had drawn the interest of numerous colleagues, to such an extent that she'd been able to secure her invitation before even having to consider resorting to less savory tactics…
Elyria
When Elyria found the black ring, she used it as an escape hatch from her own life, exempting herself from the toils of work & school & embarking on a vacation cruise around the world. She wanted a life worth taking pictures of, like so many others' lives she'd been following online. But after a few months at sea, & stops at more than a dozen tropical destinations, she found herself once again growing just as bored as she'd been at work & at school. She began to feel as if the very palm trees were mocking her, the rolling tides laughing at the flimsiness of her wishes.
Ariadne
Ariadne, navigating the labyrinth…
Karina
Karina returned to campus just as the mushrooms were kicking in…
Arae
Arae (and... Friend?) wishing you a smile-free (yet still happy) Halloween season…
Millie
The first time Millie was suddenly cornered by several black SUVs, hooded and herded into one of them by burly men wearing suits, sunglasses and earpieces, she'd reacted as you might imagine anyone would…