I watch our new editor, Karen, pick at her bagel fixings and adjust her cup of double shot skinny latte… Read more Chapter 1: Dragon magic and the daily sun

Here’s a small sample of how my mind was rushing as I made and ate lunch.  I don’t think my… Read more Chapter 2: How to eat some cow

“So, we did a demonstration for our new editor from Listra Luachra Press,” Sarah said. “Oh, shit. How did that… Read more Chapter 3: When recovery is a fool’s game

I tried to go back out into the city and the Garden after lunch, but the second I placed my… Read more Chapter 4: The nope lizard

“How’s it going?” Peter asked as we stepped in through the door. He was playing with Legos on the dining… Read more Chapter 5: Toys, cartoons, girls, and real family

On January 1, 2002, a magazine called Gyo published a comic by Junji Ito called, in the English translation, the… Read more Chapter 6: Don’t do this

I have become a person who uses ‘Earthling’ unironically. — Niʔa was there to observe my re-merging, on both sides,… Read more Chapter 7: Recombination

Somewhere in the past year, we’d earned enough money one month that we were able to buy a plushie that… Read more Chapter 8: Home, but not

Standing in the noon day sun in the middle of Mau Rro, right on the lift platform, with the stylized… Read more Chapter 9: Exile of the Maiden

Dear Ashwin Ampersand of the Inmara, Ashwin Pember pinched the bridge of our nose just like I tended to do,… Read more Chapter 10: Edit this

As per article 1 of our contract, found in chapter 9 paragraph 9 of Ashwin’s book The End of the… Read more Chapter 11: To crack the shell

When we next recombined on ʔetekeyerrinwuf, we unlocked the gifts of Phage in our selves that were there, too. I… Read more Chapter 12: Games and Sentences

Overall, the vessel was almond shaped. Such a simple, basic, logical shape for a seed. A tempting shape for a… Read more Chapter 13: The Dancer

Meeting the Dancer, and knowing that it was ʔetekeyerrinwuf’s first contact with any alien species, I understood a bit better… Read more Chapter 14: Limerence and myth

We awoke unusually early on a very sunny day with the realization that we were going to get to visit… Read more Chapter 15: The Intergalactic Polycule

When we got home, before we could get to the fridge to store our very extremely heavy-with-cheese sandwich, Peter was… Read more Chapter 16: Reunion