Shishiru is a familiar-seeming planet. It's inhabited by hairless apes who've built skyscrapers and drive cars and go to school and laugh and smile and cry. With normal people like Miriam Summers and her friends Retta Aram and Temera Kachou, it's a planet whose only apparent differences from more familiar inhabited planets is its cooler climate and the three rings wrapping around its equator.

But there's something else about Shishiru, something that sets it apart from other planets you may know about, and it's a constant reminder to its citizens that the clock, it keeps on ticking.

Tick.

Tick.

Tick.

It keeps on going

Tick.

Tick.

Tick.

Author's Note: Penana doesn't support the formatting of the original document. If you want to read the document to the fullest effect, check out the links below.

Part I:

http://docs.google.com/document/d/1pxGkrIPD2O-WdVXo1isju60kZYIDi9EEOnso020cpZw/edit?usp=sharing

Part II:

http://docs.google.com/document/d/15aa3DlFywx_90sWuXlSYvqWAxXW6oCDRSQpxw5q7nO4/edit?usp=sharing

Part III:

http://docs.google.com/document/d/1NXvEoo6EhMtkXoaCWPN5MiAG8jtji4gpmnef5p2Oqq4/edit?usp=sharing

When she was a high school student, Nina Lin thought life after graduation was going to be great. Come life after graduation, she's found that living to pay the bills isn't a life worth mentioning, or even one worth living. And to rub salt in the wound, she reunites with some old friends whose lives are riding first class on the world's most expensive cruise liner compared to hers.

But with a little unwanted power, she finds that one of her old friends is riding the same boat in life as her.

A story about anime characters fighting. Not necessarily the ones with illustrations.

The characters:

Deirdre

Wes

Banner and characters by Annabel-m.

http://annabel-m.deviantart.com/

Read as a Google Doc here:

http://docs.google.com/document/d/1lWXK9DNOdqywa2985ZF0QJyudUfhRlxc5E2pHC6z-j0/edit?usp=sharing

Lost on a mountainside in the middle of a blizzard

He lies down to rest

And has a dream

Just a simple little allegory about badgers and porcupines that'll take fifteen seconds to read.

Was not written under the influence of drugs, promise.

walks are good, walks are nice.

but let's not walk too long or too fast.

there's work to be done, after all.