Wren, wondering (or not wondering) what happened to her friend…
Wren
From a latent space containing billions of dimensions, clear voices ring out…
Xia
The singular face of Xia, attending an eclectic gallery opening in several alternate dimensions simultaneously…
Kienna
Kienna, working the night shift at the mermaid tadpole nursery…
Katharina
Katharina, taking sweet, sweet revenge…
Jillian
Jillian, either at a night club with a very specific theme, or at the base of Devil's Tower about to be taken on a hyperspace joyride…
Julietta
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…
Anya
Anya, directing a music video on her first night shoot…
Zubaida
Zubaida, glowing and feeling at home on the playa…
Mila & Milana
Mila & Milana loved nothing more than to scare the crap out of hotel guests, lingering in the long hallways for hours, waiting for one unsuspecting innocent after another to come around a corner and spot them…
Lilith
Lilith, listening carefully for the next instruction from the black ring…
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.