Mr Shade just ruined the future. At Saul les Smith, the metrics are blank, the staff is unhinged, and a dream city under the sea is still due by morning. As authority turns feral and professionalism becomes a weapon, survival means breaking the future everyone else is working overtime to build. ONC 2026. Prompt 97: When the world slips into endless darkness, something begins to move in the shadows and you must find a way to survive in a night that never ends.

~~Sequel to No Pills. Before Charlie met Mia, he was Krypton, his sister's knight - and Silver was the flame that torched everyone and everything. From her dreams of becoming an actress like their mother to her almost-final breath in a juvenile detention unit, Silver burned everything on her path to destruction. No pill could have erased how she ruined herself, her family, and especially brother, even if he doesn't remember... Now they are grown, Silver tries to learn from the past. If only the loose ties of her atrocity will stop trailing her. Meanwhile, Charlie and Mia attempt to balance adulthood with recovery. After surviving cartels to live peacefully with his friend, Charlie begins his juggle between careers. Mia, too, endures college while playing a parental role for her little cousin, pushing back nagging questions about her father. To the two, all is well until Pamela's reign forces them back into the world of drugs and blood. Can they ever get out?