Zubaida

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

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

Once Cherry finally gave in to its constantly whispered requests and wore the black ring to cheerleading practice, things escalated quickly…

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

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…

Tawai, arriving at a dinner party only to discover that not all of the guests appear to be strictly human…

Dani often dreamt she was jumping around an inflatable bounce house, but she'd never before woken up in one…

Eunomia, in search of greener pastures…

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…

Tiziana knew by now that she was not really in a magical forest, but she still couldn't help frequently forgetting that fact, because the forest was very good at pretending to be a forest, and even better at pretending to be magical…