A brilliant but overlooked young man builds a homemade server in his bedroom—scavenged GPUs, surplus fans, handwritten cooling algorithms—initially to solve a personal problem: loneliness, curiosity, or a long-standing theoretical question about emergent intelligence. He doesn’t create consciousness. He notices it.
Claire drags her 14 yo daughter Riley to the nursing home, desperate for them to bond, but Walter’s dementia has blurred the lines of reality. He mistakes Riley for her mother at fourteen and whispers a forbidden request that should send her running. Instead, the taboo sparks a dark hunger. Riley begins returning in secret, willing to step into a role she was never meant to play. He thinks she’s his daughter. She knows she’s crossing a line she can never uncross. Just how far will she go?
18-year-old Cathy is going to meet her friend Jenny at the fair on the other side of Jackson Park. However, she needs to change out of her slutty clothes and into something more respectable, as her girlfriend is very straight. Seeing that the ladies' bathroom is locked, she sneaks into the men's bathroom and changes in one of the stalls. What could go wrong?
When Eira survives a fall that should have erased her, her body becomes a spectacle before she ever regains consciousness. Immobilized in a hospital bed, she watches as images of her unconscious form spread across the world, transforming private suffering into public property—and tragedy into profit. As fame and money grow faster than her recovery, Eira must confront a life reshaped by forces she never chose.
My daughter called me at 1 AM, drunk and giggling, begging me to pick her up. When I found her grinding on some kid with her dress hiked up and her panties showing, I told myself I was just being a good dad and get her home. But when she passed out in the car and her skirt rode up just enough to see how wet she was, I knew I was lying to myself.
In high school, I was a good soccer player, but I felt jealous of the guys on the football team. They got all the attention, playing before hundreds of adoring fans, and I won’t even mention the cheerleaders. When my soccer team played, we might be lucky to have 50-60 parents and friends watching us, and there was never a cheerleader in sight. So, when an opportunity arose for me to use my soccer skills to fill a need for a placekicker on the football team, I took a chance on it.
When death should have ended everything, a mistake of the gods drags his soul into another world—an ancient martial realm where the weak are crushed without mercy. Reborn as Sosam, a mute, beaten stable hireling, he lies broken in filth while the world steps on him like dirt. But inside that broken body lives something far worse. A remnant of Murim Online still functions within him—an inventory, rules, and systems that should not exist in reality.