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The Variance
46.1kA secret organization called HICP, the Human Intelligence Center Program, attempts to copy human DNA with the concept of butterfly wings to create a perfect human being. Though they did not create a perfect human being, instead they created a creature that spreads a contagious and deadly disease within the country of Billingtor. HICP releases the virus freely into the population, believing it is the best way to handle Billingtor’s large population instead. HICP itself believes there is a cure already made by the creator of the virus, but there isn’t. Now, people are dying while others become infected. While the virus spreads, people begin to find cracks beneath the surface about their own government, revealing nothing but corruption. These different people are all the main characters, and their narratives, very different from each other, soon all tie together.
1945
22.2kAfter WW2, Aletta’s father comes home from war. She has no memory of him, only the image of a father, but he is nothing like she had imagined- or hoped. The moment her father arrives, everything changes horribly. Her childhood, her world, her home changes. The place she once knew as peaceful was now shattered by reality: illness, death, being a witness to a mysterious murder, and the demand to grow up. In desperation, she finds a place where reality seems to fade, and fantasy grows in a mythological forest that is dying. All while being a witness to a murder, having to choose whether to reveal the murderer or to keep it a secret. However, the deeper she goes into the fantasy, the more the line between reality and fantasy blurs. 1945 has many meanings, but the main one is: there comes a time when you must choose to stay quiet or to speak out the truth, even if the outcome is shattering.