Tyra returns home at the end of the year to reunite with her friends, what surprises will the new year bring?

Everybody settles into their new roles, their lives forever changed by their various encounters as they set the stage.

Mary takes advantage of her employers onsite therapist to talk through her strange new dreams.

New intern Mary enjoys her first work retreat in the comfort of her own tent, but soon finds herself being dragged into her co-worker Sophia’s compartment.

When the time comes for the first wave of BlissGirls to be activated for Blisscorp’s wealthy patrons, Helena attempts to save her childhood friend Sam from being chipped.

A woman on the Beach uses a bottle of hypnotic lotion to control other beach-goers to rub lotion on her body.

Abby takes extreme measures to deal with her lecherous supervisor, but one of her coworkers takes notice…

Megan is overworked. Between her career as a sculptor and the odd jobs she picks up to make ends meet, she has no time for a social life, less so for romance. Her best friend, Sophie, sets her up with a blind date to change that.

Aubrey reluctantly accepts her randomly awarded tour of a Blissfuel factory, but the eccentric host soon gives her a bad feeling.

In the final week of her college project, Tyra is dragged out to a late night magic show, the head act? A stage hypnotist!

Disillusioned with the Terran Rebellion, Jackie has found one way out of the war, but is ensnared by another. A Human Domestication Guide story.

Holly has never been invited over to Lily’s house, which is odd since they’ve been friends since kindergarten. Turn’s out Lily lives in a mansion that’s older than the whole city, and her family has a secret.

A supervillainess with suggestibility-inducing powers proves to be an even more formidable opponent – and more desirable friend – than anticipated.

A young man has a chance encounter with a drone in a world where the strange has become mundane and his whole world is changed for the better.

Xara and Amanda settle into life in Ananke, bond with family and learn about the fetish-driven society. The second entry in the Inheritance setting.

A nerd “boy” starts getting a lot of attention from his goth art teacher.

Sam’s eccentric roommate, Aubrey, is given a free plant on her way home from the gym.

A pair of friends find a bizarre arcane sex manual in the classics section of the local library. Mara wants to try out the beautiful bodyart designs within. Anne is a bit put off by the lewd captions, but she’s just being silly, right? After all, there’s no such thing as magic…

A virtual reality experiment leaves its subject with no alternative, but one choice.