Mirabella is brash, sexy, confused, willful, and wild. Here are episodes from her teen years as extracted from her diary and from the accounts of people who encountered her back then. Illustrated.
When the Korean officer De-Yong is on the verge of dying in a duel against a samurai, a kumiho saves his life. She offers him a pact—one that can only be sealed through a union—and it heals his wounds. Too late, both of them realize the consequences of this bond, which also draws other powers onto the battlefield. In the process, the moral boundaries between humans and demons begin to blur.
In a rain-soaked neon city where flooded canals hide corporate secrets, a cynical salvage diver rescues an android scientist who claims her human consciousness was transferred to escape assassination. As they uncover proof of a vast program erasing awakened android minds, desire and doubt intertwine, forcing both to confront what makes consciousness real. Hunted by the corporation that created her, she must choose between survival and sacrifice.
The Nolan family was a complete wreck. In a last ditch effort to save it, the matriarch takes the family to a psychiatrist for family counseling. The psychiatrist, though, has an agenda of her own. [NOTE: Partially A.I. generated by an original idea (if there are original ideas in prose anymore) I had]
18yo Jenny has a disastrous date with a boy from school and calls her best friend's dad to pick her up from a seedy motel, since she can think of no one else who could help her discreetly.