IRL

 

A spooky tale of virtual school gone very,
very wrong... Lucy is eager to leave her
bullies behind and start over at a new school when she moves to Alaska
with her parents. Her first days at school are all remote learning;
how is she going to make friends when she can't meet anyone
in person?

White Pine Secondary School is made up of
just thirteen students who all seem really welcoming when they start
chatting online. She grows excited about meeting her new friends
I.R.L.!

But when she turns up at her school, she is
met with a crumbling, abandoned building. There's nothing there,
apart from a tiny cemetery with thirteen small headstones poking
out of the frozen ground. Headstones with some very familiar names
on them...

Lucy doesn't know what to believe. Are her
new 'friends' playing a mean trick, or is there something far more
horrifying at play?

Illustrated by: Omou Barry