After School: A LitRPG Novel About Grief, Love, and Logging Out

Rule 1: You can log out whenever you want.Rule 2: I love you.QUITTERS GET DELETED.Eidolon wasn't supposed to exist. A hospice game for kids with no time left, designed so no one dies alone. The only problem? You can't quit.When 15-year-old Kai logs in using his dead mom's save file, he finds a Hallway with a shrinking door, a Court that deletes the people you love, and Debug City - full of glitched dads asking "Are you my son?" on loop.Kai doesn't want XP. He wants out. So he breaks the game.He mods the grief.He hacks the love.He teaches a muted NPC how to say "I love you" and crashes the whole system.But when 1,442 kids get trapped in the servers, there's only one way to log them out: Someone stays behind as Admin. Forever.AFTER SCHOOL is a LitRPG like you've never read before:For fans of Ready Player One, Dungeon Crawler Carl, and The Last of UsGameLit meets psychological horror - where the final boss is griefNo stats. No levels. Just one save file: MOMExploits: Love is a console command. N is a complete answer.The game is healing now. The server is you."The exit is where you make it." -Admin KScroll up and click "Read Now" - Lv1 is PIZZA.Content Warning: Death, grief, terminal illness, child loss, psychological horror. Save often. Live more.