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by AliC

Chapter 31

Thomas Ratsinger, the dean of Sociology for Colombia University, sat behind his desk playing solitaire. Apart from some administrative duties, which were sparse enough in a department that ran this smoothly, and the handful of classes he taught, he didn’t have much else to do. Gr...

by AliC

Chapter 40

As the girls went their separate ways, Hannah wanted nothing so much as to lick her wounds in private. Her performance had been miserable, the changes facing her were daunting, and her point total was so deeply underwater that she didn’t know how she’d survive the round. But it...

by AliC

Chapter 48

**Three Days Earlier** ---------------------- “Are you sure you wanna do this?” Lindsey asked. They stood outside the salon, in the narrow, cobblestone streets that made up the village proper. It was a beautiful town, in truth, though its total lack of inhabitants gave it the f...

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Chapter 49

As much as he loved his life in New York CIty, there was one thing from his youth upstate that Jake missed with all his heart; a simple, cleansing, ritual that, for all its near infinite access to nearly anything the human heart could desire, he simply couldn’t get in the city wi...

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Chapter 55

Jake stood at the balcony, watching the dark clouds at the distant horizon. They did not look good. He doubted they would be his problem, though. Callous, evil sadists the showrunners might have been, but they’d kept the island’s weather perfectly manicured so far. Still, he w...

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Chapter 61

“Mr. Cooper,” a voice pierced the fog of sleep. Jake blinked, bringing his head up slowly. “Welcome back to the waking world,” An older woman stared back at him. “I trust you had a good nap?” Around him, light snickers broke out. He opened his eyes to find an extremel...

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Chapter 70

Jake’s consciousness had existed in a tug of war between realities for what felt like days and, by the nature of the exercise, occasionally years. As he blinked to wakefulness in his dream pod, now fully and truly aware of where and what he was, the weight of it all fell on him i...