Support Group for Anomalies in Forking

From Post-Self
Support Group for Anomalies in Forking
[[Michael Miele]]
Format Short story
Character Ernie
Year 2328
Canonicity Canon
Appears in Clade — A Post-Self Anthology
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"Support Group for Anomalies in Forking" follows Ernie as he visits the eponymous group, a collection of individuals who all experience unique effects while forking for various reasons:

  • Melanie forks into an animate collection of forks, calling herself Metalanie.
  • Samantha's face grows steadily more abstract with each fork.
  • David, an old biology teacher, forks into various systems of the body with each progressive fork: muscles, bones, nerves, circulatory, etc.
  • Devonian, a furry with a wide variety of fursonas, forks into different ones each time, and when they merge down, their root instance picks up features of each.
  • Ernie gets so tired after forking that he falls asleep immediately, often missing things...like attending the meeting itself; his other instance had already gotten there before him.

It turns out that the group itself is huge, and that several people sys-side have various anomalies crop up while forking.