Story Structure

 The complete story is told in a series of linked vignettes.

Each vignette has an ending that links to another vignette, but there are also a number of tangents that emerge in the middle of an ongoing vignette.

For example, when Mariel contacts her brother, a reader can link that story and read about the brother's day cleaning the 39 public schools on a city-at-sea. The citizens there do not consume AM media and harbor a number of conspiracy theories about the roots of the global society.

If readers keep reading, they can link back to where they left off or loop back in when Mariel reaches out again later.

These linked vignettes tell a more complete story but allow for wild swings in narrative and tone