Traveling to parallel worlds is a drag. Except when you meet a hottie.

Nina's family on her home world demands perfection, an impossible bar to meet when she unpredictably slips into other worlds, leaving behind her body, which is obedient but unable to speak. Breaking dishes after dinners and worse from her perceived disability has been a source of humiliation for her and her family. When a poorly timed slip during Church nearly kills her and splinters her family, she's convinced she's fundamentally unlovable.

Nina would do anything for a family who supported her, even leave her own world behind forever no matter the cost. When Nina encounters Corey on her first slip to his world, an instant connection is made. Corey and Nina fall in love. His older brother shows her what it's like to be protected, and she's finally found an accepting family. If only she could stay on his world more than one day each week, her life would be perfect.

All she needs is time. But Corey has his own troubles, and every week Nina leaves him behind to return home steers him down a path of his own destruction. If she can't figure out how to control her visits to parallel worlds soon, she'll lose him forever.

Adria Bailton (she/they) spends her day focusing on the nuclei of atoms, and imagines entire worlds and universes to share. Their first published poetry and short fiction were in her high school’s fiction magazine some decades ago. Their first paid short fiction was in 2021 to Wyldblood Flash. Her piece at Constelación Magazine was published in both English and Spanish. Adria is an Associate Member of the SFWA, Member of SCBWI and Codex.
Adria wrote Worlds Divide about her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska while living in the Pacific Northwest and the traditional territory of several Indigenous nations, including the Stillaguamish, Suquamish, and Duwamish, They currently live in New England on the traditional lands of the Nipmuc with their partner, an axolotl, and three dogs.