Ari Alexander is 18 and has just graduated. She's always felt... less. And by less, she is MORE. She's always been bigger than every girl she knows. While she's not morbidly obese, she sure as hell isn't tiny either. But her luck, and confidence, might be changing for the better when she gets offered a job as a plus s...
Alison is just a normal girl... Or as normal as you can grow up to be with a family that didn't really love you. As she discovers she is adopted, she starts to wonder where she could be from. As she wishes to be in the place she belongs in, she finds herself in none other than the Naruto world- some show about ninjas...
There is an intangible magic to the secret double-lives of strangers on trains. She spends her journeys gazing out at city lights outside the window of the train. He watches strangers on the seats around him. Two strangers living off the stories of strangers, with only one journey to find their own. {Written 2013.}