A thirty year old woman struggles to come to terms with the dull realities of adult life, the daily grind of her work as a hairdresser, and the fact that her husband barely seems to have time for her in between his job and hobbies and how it all seems incompatible with the fantasies about relationships and life in general cherished by her younger self.
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In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities lik plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.
In a world without ritual and rites of passage, without heroism, without valor and victory, what remains? By what stars can one steer their soul ship across the whale road of life? How can one be true to one's self, when the self has lost all meaning?
A piper. A plague. A payment. A dark fairy-tale of obsession, injustice, and shattered dreams, some of which may seem familiar and some less so.
A middle aged woman grieves when the wedding she has spent her whole life dreaming of is prevented from happening by plague.
Oshana is a young mermaid who lives in a community sheltered by a living coral reef and spends her time hunting, scavenging ruins for valuables, and dreaming of bonding with her beloved Wendaro. Unfortunately, his parents, put off by her family's relative lack of wealth, feel she needs to do something exceptional to prove herself first but Oshana is at loss regarding how to do this in this undersea coming of age tale.
KazaKu is a boarder at the local sanctum for the arcanely gifted, possessing the battle gift which endows her with more than human strength and dexterity and a powerful resistance to fatigue and injury. Unfortunately, even if the side effect of this type of gift was an extremely violent temper, her options would be limited. Those with the battle gift make fine warriors but are good for little else and, since in her society women can not be warriors, she is left in a decidedly uncomfortable position. But she has not chaffed overmuch regarding lack of social prospects, present and future, unable to imagine an alternative, until a chain of events takes her life in a radically different direction.
As someone who had read the right books, Wilma should know that demons need to be called and welcomed before they can claim you but when, bored and with out direction after graduating college, she gets a chance to reconnect with the object of her infatuation from high school, she forgets everything, including this rule.
High Priestess Xtaj prepares for her yearly duty, to educate, join with, and then offer up, the chosen sacred vessel to enable the crops to grow.
Young warrior Sarna returns for a comforting visit to her childhood home, only to find that her mother's addiction to the reya plant has caused her to fall afoul of its vengeful guardian spirit and she becomes caught up in a desperate, overwhelming battle to preserve the first love and refuge she ever knew.
Two roommates and best friends in college take up playing an MMO as a bonding hobby with surprising results as they discover unexpected thrills and skills and an unanticipated depth of connection with their virtual guild-mates.
A girl, devastated at the prospect of being unable to attend her high-school prom is suddenly offered a miraculous opportunity to realize her dream when she receives a visit from her own very special fey guardian.
An awkward plain Jain attempts to cope with the disappearance under mysterious circumstances of her over-the-top neighbor and on again off again friend since childhood, during a return plane flight.
A young woman is called on to help a close friend through a recent break up but, as she watches her friend struggle with the pull she still feels towards her potentially abusive boyfriend, she becomes aware that there is more going on than meets the eye and she and her friends have to work together to oppose the strange forces confronting them.
In the distant future, a woman on the planet Redos, who has spent the years since graduation trying, in her own mind, to redress her lack of popularity growing up by working as a pin up model, gets the opportunity to do so in a much more concrete way when she receives an invitation to her high-school reunion, held at the home of her incredibly wealthy crush and former best friend.
A routine job on the rowing bench of a trading ship goes horribly wrong with the onset of a sudden storm, leaving the crew stranded on an uncharted island filled with mysterious horrors
I, Penelope is a high school tale of coming of age and sexual awakening through the medium of Dungeons and Dragons and Queen Elizabeth the first.
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When a master thief takes on a particularly deadly assignment, to retrieve a sacred relic from the temple of a religious sect whose dark practices are well known, he finds both horrors beyond his imagining and an unlikely “ally” who drags him into a far more dangerous mission that forces him to face the terrible secrets at the apex of the temple.
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