Va tries to analyze a sample of X and finds out the hard way just what its secret really is.

Kaylee’s girlfriend wants her to pick up supplies for her pet. Strangely, Kaylee can’t seem to remember any details at all about her girlfriend’s pet. Lucky her, the pet shop’s chashier has a few helpful ideas.

Hanae got through her student days using the Techno Teacher CD-Rom series. A chance discovery of a later CD might get her through single motherhood.

In a vast multiverse, many stories are taking place at all times. Sometimes, the actors of those stories may bear great resemblance to each other across parallel worlds…

Megan Olson is a meek and timid personal assistant and she just woke up to find that she and her cruel boss, Evelyn Maguire, have traded bodies. Now the two must work together to get things back to normal.

In the far future, computer reboots you.

For AIs, the mind is quite separate from the body. Some only live in electronic castles in the cloud, some wear bodies like baseline humans choose clothes. And some were born organic before they chose to become silicon and electrons and light.

If a pair of headphones play brainwashing noise but the only one to hear it is a deeply entranced dragoness, do they make a sound?

When Ariana makes the mistake of taking party drugs at the concert of a problematic rock band, she finds the music taking on hypnotic qualities, and she is unable to resist the instructions in the lyrics.

An online content creator reacts to an hypnotic movie of old in front of his live audience but this time he’s not the only one affected by it.

A woman describes the strange fate that befell her best friend, and warns others what to watch out for.

Jadene Corrigan is an award-winning actress. Everyone wants a piece of her. Now, they may be able to get one…

Ariella has always been able to demand obedience with just a glance. She built a life around that, surrounded by slaves and servants. But one day, it’s all started to unravel…

Antonia faces punishment from an old foe.

Jessica doesn’t remember much of her life, but she is more than happy to have spent most of it as one of Mistress’s many slaves. On the thirtieth anniversary of her enslavement, however, Mistress reveals that Jessica is more special than she thought.

An alien scavenger enters a bunker on a post-apocalyptic Earth, seeking fortune and glory. What she finds, though, might just change her mind about her life’s goals…

A journalist interviews a rising industrialist, and discovers the latter has plans for her as well.

As the Affini Compact exerts its dominion over Terran space, one girl finds adjusting to her new life under alien occupation to be much more pleasant than she anticipated.

Reuniting with an old friend, Sadie begins to experience odd situations. But there’s a simple explanation for everything, right?

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.