Recommend reading “Oasis - Arrival” first. The other Oasis stories are branches from the first.
 
 
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Rachel and Yvonne woke to a bright sun and the high-pitched wheezing of vacuums, both of them blinking away sleep as they struggled upright. “Whattime is it,” Yvonne mumbled, but Rachel just stared forward, tousled her mane of fire-red hair, and slumped back onto her pillow. The black girl groaned and stretched with a huge yawn, smacking her lips as she lo

On an endless road straight to nowhere, an uncommon sight trundled along. It was a large charter bus - rare in the United States, rarer still in the bland and vast expanse of Nevada. Aboard were the thirty-something members of the Undereast Springs High dance team, each and every one of them dazed out of their mind with boredom. The only person that looked remotely lucid was Miss Wilson, the fussy instructor who was once again tapping away at her phone.
 
 
“Excuse me,” she fin

It wasn’t often that Leah rode the city bus. It had a particular reputation for missing passengers - it was easy for predators to get on the bus and simply wait until they saw someone that caught their fancy. As such, most of the people that used the public transportation were hungry preds and prey that knew what they were getting into. Well, them and the unlucky and uninformed tourists. Today, however, there were a good number of students from her high school and the local college who were

It was solidly evening when Samantha finally powered down her work PC and gathered her belongings. Her movements were ragged and betrayed her exhaustion, something she never would’ve dared had there been anybody else left in the office. Hers was a cutthroat business, and the proverbial blood of many a career stained each and every floor of the massive building. Her current boss, she knew for a fact, had sabotaged her previous superior’s reputation as an capable manager. It had been a

Violet "Vi" Liu sat on a sofa and tried to not think about her job. She was becoming exceptionally good at it, scarily so, even. There had been a time, not too long ago, when the thought of taking a position like this would've repulsed her, but her morals had dulled to a mere sting of shame at the end of the day, right about when her boss handed her pay.
He was a balding man, astonishingly non-descript beyond the always too-sweaty curve of his head. She'd almost laughed at the way

"Emma!" called the matriarch of the Bend household. "Emma!"
 
There was no reply, and Tina sighed. Despite her daughter's constant assurances that she would be better about her routine, that she would "never lose her head" on an examination day again. She hurried up the stairs, checking her watch. If Emma was going to be out and ready for her friend to pick her up, she'd have to be out in record time. That did not bode well.
 
She heard the sounds before