Meet Shira, Sumi, and Freya—three very different friends whose ordinary outings, unexpected opportunities, and stranger adventures keep making their lives more complicated, more revealing, and better.
Shira would usually rather stay home.
Sumi has already made plans for everyone.
Freya has found a way to measure the results.
Somehow, they are still friends.
Shira, Sumi, and Freya keep ending up in places none of them quite expected: beaches, restaurant kitchens, vintage-media fairs, competitions, trips, and eventually perhaps a few places considerably stranger than those.
The stories can be read individually, but they also build on one another. If you’re new to the three of them, publication order is the best place to start.
Shira likes black clothes, old technology, AFI, and situations in which nobody expects her to participate.
She carries an old iPod, keeps her smartphone monochrome, and has a well-developed instinct for finding the objectionable part of any cheerful group activity. She is also usually the first person to notice when someone else is scared, embarrassed, or being overlooked.
She would prefer that this last fact not become a topic of discussion.
Sumi does not so much invite people places as inform them where everyone is going.
She is cheerful, impulsive, almost completely without a filter, and an astonishing cook. Unfortunately for Freya, Sumi does not consider extraordinary culinary talent evidence that she should immediately establish a restaurant group.
Unfortunately for Sumi, Freya does.
Freya is training to become an elite rower and approaches everyday life with the troubling suspicion that most things could be improved with timing data.
She is ambitious, competitive, practical, and very difficult to persuade that unrealized potential should simply be left alone. She also has a fierce sense of fairness and will abandon the metric the moment the metric conflicts with doing the right thing.
Each story has its own plot, so you can jump around if one premise catches your interest. Publication order is recommended, though. The friendships, running jokes, and individual character arcs accumulate along the way.
Shira agrees to a beach trip under circumstances she considers legally questionable. Then Freya finds a rowing event.
A festival kitchen loses its chef. Sumi volunteers to help for a little while.
Freya reacts normally by giving her three restaurants.
Read “Sumi Opens a Restaurant for One Night” →
Shira goes to a vintage-media fair looking for an AFI record.
She finds someone repairing an old iPod instead.
More stories will appear here as the three of them continue making one another’s lives less efficient.
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