by MendicantbyCA
Everyone woke up equal. That was the problem. Sixty percent of humanity stopped being only one person. They didn’t die. They didn’t split. They simply fell asleep in their beds and woke up somewhere else — a world that is almost ours, except the gravity is lighter, trees grow through skyscrapers, hovering buses drift inches above cracked roads, and metal passes through everything except human flesh. They call it the Second Ground. Mira Voss is twenty-seven years old, three months behind on rent, two years behind on where she thought she’d be, and freshly certain she is the only person on Earth not becoming someone. Then the Second Ground takes her. She arrives with nothing — no job history, no failures, no track record of who she’s been. Just a body that feels slightly too light, a world that runs on rules no one wrote down, and sixty percent of humanity figuring it out beside her. For three weeks, it is almost beautiful. Then someone builds the first wall. The Second Ground is a psychological sci-fi web novel about identity, the compulsive human need to rebuild broken systems, and one woman’s slow, costly, deeply real journey toward becoming herself — in both worlds at once.
