As Phuong waits for her next inevitable descent into mindless oblivion, she ruminates on the slow, inexorable progress of the blackouts that have come to rule her life.

An accident victim with an experimental cyborg brain begins to suffer a peculiar form of cognitive impairment, and has to try to think her way out of her troubles with a head that’s very much unsuitable for the task.

A very dense hacker gets a wellness check by her new evil insidious overlords, the affini. Forced to interact with her alien case worker, She definitely totally outwits them and does not in anyway become a loving little hypnotized pet.

You fell forever, but now you’ve reached the ground. Someone awaits to take your burdens from you to prepare you for what is to come.

Professor Reed has been rather generous with a student’s grades. Her TA, Isabel, grows suspicious.

“You don’t remember why you’re here. You’ve lost track of the day. You don’t know what this bar is. You’re confused. It’s okay.” A short story around memory play, vaguely-described intoxication with some good wholesomeness at the end.