Novel Illustrations for Finding Ecstasy

(Spoilers)

Chapter 1 / Irreducible

I got in a fight and won.

Chapter 2 / Finite Fibers

I can tell within the first 5 seconds what kind of day it’s going to be.

Chapter 3 / Reciprocal

Maybe today will be different.

Chapter 4 / Residual

How wrong of me to experience a moment of optimism.

Chapter 5 / Conditional Probability

Except from somewhere, I find my voice.

Chapter 6 / Rational Function

It looks like things are going to get worse.

Gerasim and Danya
Chapter 7 / Surface Area

Not that this information helps me in any way.

Chapter 8 / Inversion

Somehow, we’ve gone back in time.

Chapter 9 / Absolute Value

Maybe, just like in geometry, I found his limit.

Nikita and Danya
Chapter 10 / Dominant

My friends at school had normal families.

Chapter 11 / Separated

My mother is kneeling at my bedside, her cream-tinted nightgown stained in blood.

Chapter 12 / Affine Space

Hopefully ghosts don’t know how to skateboard.

Chapter 13 / Elliptic Curve

Who the fuck would choose to wake up at 7 a.m.?

Chapter 14 / Weakly Normal

If I had to choose between coming here and going to Orbital, I’d choose this place every time.

Chapter 15 / Inscribed

Chapter 16 / Concurrent

Maybe this day will actually be fun.

Chapter 17 / Reductive

This stuff is going to fix my life. Just remember that.

Chapter 18 / Inscribed

My mother’s voice whispers into my ear. But why isn’t she helping me?

Chapter 19 / Scheme

Each bag is zip-locked shut, probably 24 bags of 100 each.

Chapter 20 / Assertion

It’s amazing the things that can happen when you finally get some decent sleep.

Chapter 21 / Undefined Terms

What should I do?

Chapter 22 / By Inspection

I see my hands from a third-person perspective.

Chapter 23 / Deductive Reasoning

Alik is happy to see us. Of course he is; we’ve come bearing gifts.

Chapter 24 / Chance Experiment

W A I T.

Chapter 25 / Invariance

We made it home with the Ecstasy. We secured two hostages. And he’s just glad I didn’t fuck it up.

Chapter 26 / Azygetic Set

This morning, I woke to the smell of cigarette smoke.

Chapter 27 / Transformation

Chapter 28 / Contrapositive

Chapter 29 / Distribution

Chapter 30 / Pure Dimension

Chapter 31 / Intercepted Arc

Chapter 32 / Immersion

Chapter 33 / Singularity

Chapter 34 / Equidistant

Chapter 35 / Vanish

Chapter 36 / Bitangential

Chapter 37 / Expressions

Chapter 38 / Congruent

Chapter 39 / Skew Lines

Chapter 40 / Reflection

Chapter 41 / Conjecture

Chapter 42 / Probability

Chapter 43 / Lateral Faces

Chapter 44 / Outcome