Farrah

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…

Augusta, haunted by the many ghosts of her childhood…

Parker, in the future, on her scooter, readying to no longer be parked…

Brandy had returned to the temple that she thought was her home, until she tried to leave again. Her main hall no longer led outside, but simply repeated itself, extending farther than she could see…

Karina returned to campus just as the mushrooms were kicking in…

Ryder, suddenly becoming very aware why no one else was eager to throw a party in this particular abandoned warehouse…

Angelia, waiting to catch a flight home…

Julietta was proud of herself for making it up into the tree without injury, though considerably less proud of the reasons that prompted her to climb it in the first place…

Dizonia was not fooled by the assorted spirits' blatant attempt to throw her off their scent…

The few seconds between bungling her over-practiced landing and actually slipping the black ring onto her finger were the most precarious of Hodja's entire life…