Alesya Grigorovitch

A man who appears to live an ordinary, inconspicuous life struggles against a tendency to walk backwards that puts glitches in his smooth trajectory. After leaving work early one afternoon without rhyme or reason, he begins walking in the opposite direction and plunges into the woods beside the highway. When he reaches the end of the forest, another one, invisible, begins.

Leaving behind her idyllic childhood in a seaside village, Emile slips into a dark world of wayward souls in an ancient Czech town. While on her way to boarding school, Emile's train takes her to another school instead, where her name has appeared on the roster. She falls into the world of Godfrey, their capricious, chaotic headmaster who teaches Manipulation rather than Math and lectures from his favorite bar. Emile navigates this world, visible only to those within it, until she learns the truth of Godfrey's inimitable school.

John Hallan is a young graduate living in the big city on a distant Earth-like planet peopled by a race of unique token-bearers. Amid the chaos of modern life, John looks for a purpose to his existence - but it's not easy when he isn't drawn in by the latest mePhone or passionate about making a name for himself, or in fact anything aside from grabbing a beer at his favorite bar. His boring life is a mystery to his exciting, popular, immortal coworker and national network star, Borneo, who is living each of his endless days as if it's his last. But John's apathy toward their magical world allows him alone to witness their one-way slide toward apocalypse.