Penelope MacDougall has always enjoyed dreaming. While she sleeps, she twists the threads of past, present, and future, weaving the bits and pieces together as she desires to form the perfect fairytale. In her dreams, she can forget, for a short time, the difficulties that plague her waking hours. 

Outside of her mind, however, things are far from perfect. Left orphaned and homeless from a fire that she herself started, Penelope now lives at a home for orphaned girls, while she tries desperately to create a future for herself out of the fragments of her past. When a series of catastrophic events causes her to slip into depression, Penelope finds comfort in her dreaming hours - and begins to discover the very real danger of playing with fate.

For The Weaver by GRuth on NaNo YWP (http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/user/442794)

Attribution: Cover design by Starflower Hunting. Public domain image from Pixabay.

Ah, Digitalia, a completely fictional world- a perfect paradise for humankind inside a huge computer. It is the ultimate game, a second life, and for humanity it now IS their life. Pollution and overpopulation had devastated Earth several centuries ago, and the world leaders there and then decided they needed to save humanity. The creators of Digitalia, a huge company that evolved from Apple and Microsoft called Connect proposed the solution of storing everyone away in a PC game as data, where the land would never get spoiled no matter what humans did, and where no one could die. It was a grand idea funded by government money, and within ten years in 2090, everyone was evacuated inside the supercomputer holding the now very real world. But what happens now that several hundred years have passed and the computer is being encroached upon by Mother Nature? It seems that the perfect haven has become the perfect trap- but the Gamemasters, the immortal digitally-gifted members of Connected refuse to acknowledge this despite the fact that people are slowly being eaten alive from errors, and that the world is crumbling. A group of heroes must find an exit- when there never was one.

For Digitalia by Lalasa on YWP (http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/user/867544).

Attribution: Cover design by Starflower Hunting. Public domain image from Pixabay. Binary image by en:User:Paulnasca (en:Image:Binary_file.png) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.