Anointed with Oil

Humanity has been left on the brink of extinction and a vanishingly small portion of the population, dubbed the Anointed, have proven suitable to have their consciousness transferred into the long-abandoned remains of humanity's Grid - a once-utopian dataspace that had facilitated world-wide virtual communication. Declared entirely inhospitable since being taken over by malignant AI, it has now become the only viable alternative for colonization.

A GameLit story about a girl named Elaine and the other Anointed that are forced to challenge unimaginable circumstance.Participant in writathon challenge