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Fiction OnlineA collection of 64 posts
Jolly Saint Nick Is Dead, Alas
A clatter on the rooftop may not bring glad tidings to the ones on Santa’s naughty list. This yuletide potboiler puts the sour in sugar plum candy and the bitter in hot buttered rum.
Seat 42E: Last
When a documentary filmmaker finds herself propelled twenty years into the future, will she discover a world better or worse than the one she left behind?
Root: Coda
Having saved their world, at least for now, Hasta and her friends make the long journey back home, facing difficult truths along the way.
Root: Part IV, Chapter 15
Hasta escapes to the nightmarish Gameplain, where she joins her friends in a desperate last-ditch attempt to save their world from annihilation.
Root: Part IV, Chapter 14
In the interface between worlds, Hasta learns more than she cares to know about the nature of her universe—and about the nature of her own self.