Stairway to Somewhere
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The world is ruins. The air is almost too toxic to breathe. Space Colonization has failed more than once. Humanity has one final option: The Digital World. Lloyd works as a transfer therapist, prepping people for a world he's too scared to go to. But when his process fails and a client runs off, what is he to do? The government sends him on a wild chase, and he begins to wonder what would be worse, dying in a toxic world, or being used as a pawn in the government's system.
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