DE-DEET! DE-DEET!
The alarm was like a jackhammer to the head. I groaned.
DE-DEET!
Enough, already! I felt for the clock radio. The snooze button. Just five more minutes.
My hand patted the air. No bedside table? I lifted my lids. Where was my …
My heart stopped.
I was staring into a triangular screen. A flat computer panel mounted flush in a peeling, white plaster wall across from the bed. Eerie copper letters pulsed at the top of the glowing gray screen.
5:58:16 A.M. Below the time flashed the words “TO DO” and a single entry: “Report to work.”
This was not my bedroom. Not even close.
The Jake staring back at me was an adult! Not crazy old. But out of college a few years. At least ten years older than the kid I’d been the night before
this is one of those adventures I don't like isn't it and I don't have any severance gifs UGH fine Bring on the Boring yes we're in for some PSYCHOLOGICAL INTROSPECTION a metaphorical puzzle where our hero must escape IF YOU DIE IN THE GAME YOU DIE FOR REAL but if you win you achieve nothing of substance
I knew it was only a matter of time, what with the pressures of leadership, the violent battle, the
endless fights against a strengthening enemy.
I’d finally been driven to a complete psychotic breakdown.
I’d gone crazy.
And this was my padded cell.
NEVER MIND THE NEVER MIND.
We’re doing an Asylum Episode.
The worst kind.
DE-DEET! DE-DEET!
The alarm was like a jackhammer to the head. I groaned.
DE-DEET!
Enough, already! I felt for the clock radio. The snooze button. Just five more minutes.
My hand patted the air. No bedside table? I lifted my lids. Where was my …
My heart stopped.
I was staring into a triangular screen. A flat computer panel mounted flush in a peeling, white plaster wall across from the bed. Eerie copper letters pulsed at the top of the glowing gray screen.
5:58:16 A.M. Below the time flashed the words “TO DO” and a single entry: “Report to work.”
This was not my bedroom. Not even close.
The Jake staring back at me was an adult! Not crazy old. But out of college a few years. At least ten years older than the kid I’d been the night before
this is one of those adventures I don’t like isn’t it and I don’t have any severance gifs UGH fine Bring on the Boring yes we’re in for some PSYCHOLOGICAL INTROSPECTION a metaphorical puzzle where our hero must escape IF YOU DIE IN THE GAME YOU DIE FOR REAL but if you win you achieve nothing of substance
DE-DEET! DE-DEET!
The alarm was like a jackhammer to the head. I groaned.
DE-DEET!
Enough, already! I felt for the clock radio. The snooze button. Just five more minutes.
My hand patted the air. No bedside table? I lifted my lids. Where was my …
My heart stopped.
I was staring into a triangular screen. A flat computer panel mounted flush in a peeling, white plaster wall across from the bed. Eerie copper letters pulsed at the top of the glowing gray screen.
5:58:16 A.M. Below the time flashed the words “TO DO” and a single entry: “Report to work.”
This was not my bedroom. Not even close.
Sometimes, when you demorph, the blood of battle stays behind.
That sounds like a fortune cookie.
paused with my hand on the doorknob and glanced down at my body. Spandex bike shorts and tight T-shirt. I looked like I should be giving a testimonial on a Tae Bo infomercial.
I’m not sure if this makes me feel young or poor.