All Manner of Thing Shall Be (The Time Traveler's Passport)

by Olivie Blake

he kept late hours, preferring the detritus of the night, and emerged from his quarters no earlier than 4 p.m. each day to the backing vocals of “She’s Kinda Hot” by 5 Seconds of Summer, which he had illegally downloaded via LimeWire some years ago.

Lmfao

so despite being virtually an adult, illness and malnutrition meant she appeared not a day over twelve years old. (How Róisín had been introduced to the concept of middle school remains something of a mystery, but every three years she simply reenrolled, and if any problems arose, Esther handled them, with however much force the situation required.)

IS THIS TWILIGHT LOL

Esther woke that morning with a terrific sense of her own authority and power, as she always did.

She thought about a visit to a simpler past, as she often did, but the past was rarely simpler, just different.

There was a trend going around on the latest app—ingenious, really, the way someone had built the algorithm to do the work of a million, perhaps even a billion psychic vampires; the way it could drain the life force from anyone and yet still continually feed, its prey returning willingly for more.

nobody invited you, you colonizing twerp.)

there was nothing Princess Urduja loved so much as weeding the garden, unless you counted decapitating Magellan),

lmao