In the after-life, souls have set up a monopoly where you can rent out a human body to experience physical life once again - for a price. Allegory is a Collector, a soul tasked with reclaiming souls that have become too attached to their rented physical form. When he falls in love with a human vessel that he was task...
The story of an arrogant teacher, an unwanted pupil, a lie, a betrayal, a time-loop, and an impending alien invasion. Cover by @Sheewholoved (Also posted on FictionPress, AO3, and Royal Road)
Snow is falling in the rural town of Rulshire. Except it might be ash, and it might have something to do with the accidental summoning of an ancient omnipotent evil. Oh, and the boiler is on the fritz.
Everything changed after the Shift. The world is changing. Everything is changing.