Elisa, trying to figure out just what, exactly, this random street fair is celebrating.
Elisa
Many girls in many dimensions, one mysterious piece of jewelry…
Rhea
Rhea, in the garden, alone…
Parker
Parker, in the future, on her scooter, readying to no longer be parked…
Farrah
Farrah, walking home alone from the only club that still stays open until sunrise, wearing the black ring…
Ether
Ether lived in a liminal space. Though her childhood had been Earth-typical, in her teens she'd begun to "phase out," not mentally (like every other high school student), but physically. From her perspective, her surroundings & everyone in them would disappear, leaving behind a bare scaffolding of wherever she'd started, seeming both under construction & on its last legs simultaneously…
Ariadne
Ariadne, navigating the labyrinth…
Em
Em, paradoxically feeling more than ever like a misfit toy…
Ryder
Ryder, suddenly becoming very aware why no one else was eager to throw a party in this particular abandoned warehouse…
Giuliana
The night before her 18th birthday, Giuliana fell asleep on Earth for the last time. Later, she realized it was far from the first time she'd been abducted. Numerous troubling occurrences—occasionally inexplicable happenings that had punched confounding holes throughout the continuity of her childhood & adolescent memories—suddenly all pieced themselves together into a coherent, canonical whole, for which her current situation, light years removed from Earth, became the only possible, inevitable adulthood.
Arae
Arae (and... Friend?) wishing you a smile-free (yet still happy) Halloween season…
Augusta
Augusta, haunted by the many ghosts of her childhood…