Issue #13

"Founder Effect" by Benjamin Crowell

He could see now that the way the school had handled the arrival of a female student had been smart. St. Agnes School was for kids with Atavistic Violence Disorder, but they were all medicated, so there wouldn't be any caveman behavior. The surveillance recordings weren't really necessary, and they were mostly a bluff anyway, because it would take too much time to go over them all routinely.

But a girl was a whole different ballgame.

"The Roommates" by Ieva Melgalve

"It's what the rumors call Russian Matrix," Muhomor laughed softly. "Not that scary, though. It just makes your experience more straightforward. Our virals don't get transferred to the internet or anything like that. Basically, what it does is..." he paused to search for the right words, "it allows you to project whatever would be on your screen right in your brain, without strain to the eyes. And it allows you to operate your computer without typing or clicking your mouse. You never lose your self-awareness. It's whatever you do usually, only without the mediation of your body. Just your brain and the computer."

"Extreme People-Watching" by Paula R. Stiles

I get the bet from my VRchat buddy, username "sexybeast": go down on the pavement, real-lifelike, and do a stroll down to the corner, where there's the mosaic on the pavement called "Our Community". Downtown East Side Vancouver in the raw.