Coming Home Again
Bodies are just vacation for the weak minded.
Everyone treats a body like a vacation. Devon decided to come home.
Humanity has outrun death. Minds slip from body to body — and gender to gender — at will: a man at dawn, a woman by dusk, or no face at all, dissolved into the shared consciousness of the Inside. Nobody owns a body. Nobody stays. Nobody dies.
Jasper is a part-time starship pilot on REACH OUT, humanity’s reach for a new world. Devon is the person she loves in every shape he wears.
Then Devon finds the one body his mind was born in — and makes the choice no one makes anymore. To keep it. To be a single person. To grow old, and to end. What that costs, and what it’s worth, is what Jasper is left holding — with a child conceived the old way and a duty she no longer wants.
Coming Home Again is a quietly radical meditation on identity, autonomy, gender fluidity, and the strange freedom of being mortal.