Starla used to have a black thumb. Then she found the black ring.
High-Speed Making-Of
Starla
Many girls in many dimensions, one mysterious piece of jewelry…
Persephone
Persephone, enduring her least favorite part of the year…
Wren
Wren, wondering (or not wondering) what happened to her friend…
Brandy
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…
Cleo
Cleo, performing a surprisingly effective creativity ritual in her studio…
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…
Karina
Karina returned to campus just as the mushrooms were kicking in…
Rhea
Rhea, in the garden, alone…
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.
Nyx
Nyx, amongst the orbs, avoiding self-reflection…
Kenise
Most guests at an art opening, particularly one located in a sizable outdoor sculpture garden, showed up with maximum intent to schmooze. Kenise, on the other hand, became schmoozed out especially swiftly, and thus preferred to sneak away and absorb herself in sketching…