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After School: A LitRPG Novel About Grief, Love, and Logging Out
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 298
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Rule 1: You can log out whenever you want.
Rule 2: I love you.
Eidolon wasn't supposed to exist. A hospice game. For kids with no time left. Designed so no one dies alone. The only problem? Quitters get deleted.
When 15-year-old Kai logs in using his dead mom's save file, he finds a Hallway with a shrinking door, a Court where voting wrong deletes the people you love, and Debug City - full of broken dads asking Are you my son? on loop.
Kai doesn't want to beat the game. He wants to break it.
To mod the grief. To hack the love. To teach a muted NPC how to say I love you and crash the whole system for three seconds.
But the real game starts when 1,442 kids get trapped in the servers, and the only way to free them is for someone to stay behind as Admin. Forever.
AFTER SCHOOL is a LitRPG like you've never read before:
- Blending the emotional weight of The Last of Us with the sharp speculative storytelling of All Systems Red.
- GameLit meets psychological horror - where the final boss is grief itself
- No stats. No grinding. Just one save file you can't delete: MOM
- Exploits: Love is a console command. N is a complete answer. The pause button should be free.
The game is healing now. The server is you.
The exit is where you make it. -Admin K
Scroll up and click Read Now - Lv1 is PIZZA.
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