this is the only online identity i have ever had

Mein Uberfluss: gaems
DJ Scully -The StuG Life™-: talking to electronics is weird*
DJ Scully -The StuG Life™-: talking to my plushie is just a thing i do but
DJ Scully -The StuG Life™-: that's just
DJ Scully -The StuG Life™-: uhm
DJ Scully -The StuG Life™-: ignor ethat
Mein Uberfluss: LOL


He had dropped her off each night their senior year, fled home in his beat-up Taurus, and masturbated to different kinds of alternative hentai. He would then play video games until his eyes hurt. Years and years. His entire life, he knew, was sand. His life wasn’t a jar—it was an hourglass. One little hourglass, pitched aggressively through the Void, hurling itself toward a rocky coastline on an unfounded continent, somewhere rainy but not cold, a hideaway which wouldn’t disappear after global warming melted the ice caps. It occurred to him then, on the shores of a safehouse implanted deep inside his mind, that he had never had sex with Claire. He had also never told her he loved her, which he was pretty sure he did, three years ago. With all that was happening in the world, with The Sickness and the new expiration dates on everyone, he thought about reaching out to her in an entirely selfish way.


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I’m on dial-up and the funny noise is in my brain. It feels like there’s a screensaver bouncing around in my head. Sounds like green pipes finding themselves in my head cavern. The noises are giving me a headache every single day. My friend Isaiah tells me to check out an online forum. The video game board tells me to check out Runescape. In Runescape, one of the first monsters you face is a level 6 goblin, across the bridge from where you begin your fake life.