CHAPTER 9. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING?

The first thing I’m struck by is how easy it is to see her, now that she’s dying in a hospital bed. When I was in 6th grade I tried desperately to get a meeting with Dr. Lianna Haven, to interview her for science project I was working on, and I never made it past… Continue reading CHAPTER 9. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING?

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CHAPTER 4. THE FADED IMAGE OF A BEAUTIFUL GHOST

It’s such an unnerving moment—light years away the most unexpected thing I’ve ever experienced in SlipStream—that I immediately press the GAB implanted at in the back of my neck and pull myself not just out of the virtual worldgame, but out of the Grid entirely. I see a swirl of colors, like a Technicolor black… Continue reading CHAPTER 4. THE FADED IMAGE OF A BEAUTIFUL GHOST

CHAPTER 1. THE ADVENTURES OF SOBER GIRL

And your eyes become corridors Where I wander with a candle Calling out to you.   – Something For Kate, “You Only Hide” “I guess I started smoking because I wanted a habit,” her breasts say—braless, perky, and perfect underneath a skin-tight bodysuit. I know I’m being crude and objectifying, we girls ought to show… Continue reading CHAPTER 1. THE ADVENTURES OF SOBER GIRL