Tawai, arriving at a dinner party only to discover that not all of the guests appear to be strictly human.
Tawai
Many girls in many dimensions, one mysterious piece of jewelry…
Inka
Inka, aware of the Minders for several years now and long past cycling through self-doubt (am I dreaming? high? crazy?), had simply accepted their presence, and the fact that no one else seemed to be able to see them, as a novel fact of her life. For the most part, they just floated around, though it was clear from the get-go that they gravitated toward populated areas…
Cherry
Once Cherry finally gave in to its constantly whispered requests and wore the black ring to cheerleading practice, things escalated quickly…
Nyx
Nyx, amongst the orbs, avoiding self-reflection…
Persephone
Persephone, enduring her least favorite part of the year…
Lilith
Lilith, listening carefully for the next instruction from the black ring…
Krystal
Krystal had spent countless hours in the woods around the cabin, silently stalking any prey she could track, gradually maturing into a fearsome apex predator undaunted by any kind of weather. It was what she'd always done when her mother would bring her up to the mountains and then disappear into the wilderness to perform her “rituals,” but this time felt different…
Raven
Raven, aglow with job satisfaction at the Museum of the Odd…
Angelia
Angelia, waiting to catch a flight home…
Aannii
Aannii, drinking coffee, in a teacup, in space…
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…