Mae, honestly not all that surprised to confirm that giving herself an impromptu tarot reading at the behest of a whispered voice emanating from a black ring would have immediate and particularly harrowing repercussions.
Mae
Many girls in many dimensions, one mysterious piece of jewelry…
Tricia
There was no universe in which Tricia was not obsessed with flight. In tandem with her obsession came its inevitable, plentiful opposition: a cavalcade of obstacles meant to prevent her ascent to the skies…
Rhea
Rhea, in the garden, alone…
Lucia
Lucia preferred the tranquility of the underwater world to the hectic, more populated surface. She'd worked with the Ocean Reef Group, helping to maintain Nemo's Garden, an agricultural experiment off the coast of the Italian Riviera that grew samples of land-based crops in underwater greenhouses called biospheres. But after storms & the pandemic cut off access to the project for months, the team was pared back to a skeleton crew, & she was cut loose. Not long into her hunt for a new job, she was contacted by a company called Reprion & recruited to work on their research submarine, the Thalassa. Eager to get back underwater, she didn't ask as many questions as she probably should have…
Starla
Starla used to have a black thumb. Then she found the black ring…
Xia
The singular face of Xia, attending an eclectic gallery opening in several alternate dimensions simultaneously…
Dani
Dani often dreamt she was jumping around an inflatable bounce house, but she'd never before woken up in one…
Nona
Nona, waiting for a bullet train to 198X…
Kienna
Kienna, working the night shift at the mermaid tadpole nursery…
Fiola
Fiola, visiting her favorite species at an otherworldly aquarium…
Yarine
For as long as she could remember, Yarine had been able to lucid dream. Growing up with this inherent ability, for her, dreaming seemed like just another series of realities, and likewise, waking life often felt like merely her most persistent (and most obstinate) dream…