Stories
- “Assignment”: Ioan Bălan — 2273
- Madison Scott-Clary
Ioan Bălan, tasked with investigating a flash-cult, tries to figure out what the heck just happened.
CWs: brief violence.
- “Coffee Leak”: Tomash — 2299
- Krzysztof “Tomash” Drewniak
Not every object works quite as you expect it.
CWs: none.
- “Dreams for Breakfast”: In All Ways — 2183
- Alexandria Christina Leal
An unsettling dream, a conversation over breakfast.
CWs: none.
Spoilers: references to material in Qoheleth.
- “Fever Dreams”: Hieromech — 2399
- Ember “Hieromech” Cloke
A poem written twelve hours before uploading.
CWs: references to some of the grosser aspects of having a body.
- “For Old Times New”: Sierra — 2207
- JL Conway
From old body to new, from old life to now.
CWs: none.
- “Hues”: True Name — 2350
- Madison Scott-Clary
After so much trauma, True Name sees the world in new hues…
CWs: None
Spoilers: lots of Mitzvot.
- “Meeting of One”: Ioan Bălan — 2309
- Madison Scott-Clary
Quakers? In space? It’s more likely than you think.
CWs: none.
- “Opportunity Paralysis”: Rena Hatch — 2368
- Madison Scott-Clary
Uploading to transition is not at all uncommon. What you do when you get there, though, is a story you will have to live.
CWs: none.
- “The Party”: Scout At The Party III — 2323
- Krzysztof “Tomash” Drewniak
The Party never stops. There is a dog in this one~
CWs: none.
- “Prophecies”: Slow Hours — 2401
- Madison Scott-Clary with No Longer Myself of The Lament
Slow Hours and If I Dream hunt down a missing cocladist, weeks after a loss.
CWs: discussions of suicide.
Spoilers: references to the plot hook of Marsh.
- “Reading”: Rye — 2273
- Madison Scott-Clary
All readings are the same, as Dear The Wheat And Rye Under The Stars well knows…
CWs: none.
- “Scan”: (no date info)
- Voksa
Scratch — Something’s gone wrong…
CWs: surgery, mild body horror.
- “Shared Moment”: Ioan Bălan — 2326
- Madison Scott-Clary
An exploration of the sensuality of sensorium play between skunks and Bălans.
CWs: vague description of sex.
- Unintended Tendencies — available on Itch.io
- JL Conway
This is the story of one soul, shortly after upload to a vast digital world, exploring themself and their identity. Checking the boundaries of who and what they are, peeling back the layers of gender, self, and species. All the while discovering the fractures that lay beneath along with the trauma carried from the years before upload as they grapple with their own life, past, and future in the unlimited world of the System.
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CWs: transphobia; PTSD and visceral descriptions of panic.
- “Wrigglings Toward”: May Then My Name — 2324
- True Name of The Lament
There was no dearth of proxmity with Ioan, but still there was a lack…
CWs: none.