A puzzle piece

A puzzle piece' is an integral element of stories-within-a-story comprising a creative part for a PhD in writing by artefact and exegesis through practice-led research. This story crosses borders of genre fiction by fitting the categories of literary fiction and speculative fiction, and by targeting young adults (aged 12 - 18), mature young adults or new adults (aged 17+, capped at 25) and adults (aged at least 18). As one story-within-stories, A puzzle piece is attentive to Deleuze and Guattari's (1987) resonating principles of the rhizome: connections, heterogeneity and interconnections.