Summary

In “April,” April May told the reader that she would stop lying to you and that everyone was not safe. In “Maya,” Maya did not want to be famous. She told her mother over the phone that she missed April, her ex-girlfriend whom the world presumed dead five months ago after a group lured her into a building and set it on fire because she had publicly supported the alien Carl, which had appeared in various large cities across the world. Since then, Maya had been frequenting the Som, a social media community that her friend Miranda created, which was meant to be a discussion board for the Dream that Carl had planted into people’s minds while they slept. Since everyone stopped having the Dream when Carl disappeared after April’s supposed death, people mostly used the Som to solve mysteries and...