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["Assignment": <small>Ioan Bălan — 2273</small>](/stories/assignment)
:   *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": <small>Tomash — 2299</small>](/stories/coffee-leak)
:   *Krzysztof "Tomash" Drewniak*

    Not every object works quite as you expect it.

    *CWs:* none.

["Dreams for Breakfast": <small>In All Ways — 2183</small>](/stories/dreams-for-breakfast)
:   *Alexandria Christina Leal*

    An unsettling dream, a conversation over breakfast.

    *CWs:* none.

    *Spoilers:* references to material in *Qoheleth*.

["Fever Dreams": <small>Hieromech — 2399</small>](/stories/fever-dreams) 
:   *Ember "Hieromech" Cloke*

    A poem written twelve hours before uploading.

    *CWs:* references to some of the grosser aspects of having a body.

["Meeting of One": <small>Ioan Bălan — 2309</small>](/stories/meeting-of-one)
:   *Madison Scott-Clary*

    Quakers? In space? It's more likely than you think.

    *CWs:* none.

["Opportunity Paralysis": <small>Rena Hatch — 2368</small>](/stories/opportunity-paralysis)
:   *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.

[*Unintended Tendencies*](https://jessfluf.itch.io/unintended-tendencies) — <small><em>available on Itch.io</em></small>
:   *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.

    Available to download on Itch.io, name your own price — help support writers in our community!

    *CWs:* transphobia; PTSD and visceral descriptions of panic.
