RE: The Years Did Not Treat Our Universe Kindly.
04-20-2019, 08:03 PM
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On April 8th, Maria Glial would contact somebody to try and get help. This was: not someone she knew personally or interacted with directly. It was a self-help book, offering solace in control. She started a diet, and smiling more, talking to people.
On April 12th, this backfired spectacularly. She instead found: that troubles were more like ambient environmental radiation than something poison in her soul she could behave away. There was a car accident en route to school and when she woke up in the hospital, her father was dead or close to it. Her attempts at forced optimism & thus suppression could not have helped less, and she threw the book away in anger by 4 PM.
On May 5th, a member of Maria Glial's family finally snapped, and: remarried. Someone they'd only known for 8 days. Now they were moving in.
On May 15th, the original designer and creator of NARRATOR announced it publicly without knowledge of MUFFINQUEST. She announced that she would: be flipping a new nickel and closing the portal unceremoniously.
On May 23rd, Maria Glial's closest friends invited her to help try and plan for this new knowledge. They all eventually decided to: try to engineer the next universe as a utopia. They had a bullet point list.
On June 19th, after the power went out for a day, Maria Glial chose to: try and make Muffy's universe a utopia, too. Get closure before time was up.
On July 12th, Maria Glial stayed up for twenty-six hours to support Muffy because: it was the grand finale. Or, well, it was meant to be, but they failed to get the closure.
On September 2nd, Please Undo confronted Maria Glial about: the flaws in the justice system she was basically sleepwalking into the utopia. It shouldn't have been personal, but it was.
On October 13th, Maria Glial's luck ran out, and she: was hospitalized for more than two weeks over a hitherto-unknown severe allergic reaction.
On October 29th, Maria Glial broke down, because: it felt like the universe (the one her body lived in, too) had moved on without her and left her without a place. Which wasn't inaccurate at all.
On November 3rd, Maria Glial was helped along by an online friend. This was: a friend bringing her on for a new enterprise separate from Muffin Time — something like video game development, or one of those rudimentary 2000s websites where teens wrote stuff to amuse themselves.
On December 9th, things got better, because: she got a meaty role in a school play.
On December 24th, somebody ruined Christmas online. This was: an outbreak of horrifying, lethal violence in the new universe.
On April 12th, this backfired spectacularly. She instead found: that troubles were more like ambient environmental radiation than something poison in her soul she could behave away. There was a car accident en route to school and when she woke up in the hospital, her father was dead or close to it. Her attempts at forced optimism & thus suppression could not have helped less, and she threw the book away in anger by 4 PM.
On May 5th, a member of Maria Glial's family finally snapped, and: remarried. Someone they'd only known for 8 days. Now they were moving in.
On May 15th, the original designer and creator of NARRATOR announced it publicly without knowledge of MUFFINQUEST. She announced that she would: be flipping a new nickel and closing the portal unceremoniously.
On May 23rd, Maria Glial's closest friends invited her to help try and plan for this new knowledge. They all eventually decided to: try to engineer the next universe as a utopia. They had a bullet point list.
On June 19th, after the power went out for a day, Maria Glial chose to: try and make Muffy's universe a utopia, too. Get closure before time was up.
On July 12th, Maria Glial stayed up for twenty-six hours to support Muffy because: it was the grand finale. Or, well, it was meant to be, but they failed to get the closure.
On September 2nd, Please Undo confronted Maria Glial about: the flaws in the justice system she was basically sleepwalking into the utopia. It shouldn't have been personal, but it was.
On October 13th, Maria Glial's luck ran out, and she: was hospitalized for more than two weeks over a hitherto-unknown severe allergic reaction.
On October 29th, Maria Glial broke down, because: it felt like the universe (the one her body lived in, too) had moved on without her and left her without a place. Which wasn't inaccurate at all.
On November 3rd, Maria Glial was helped along by an online friend. This was: a friend bringing her on for a new enterprise separate from Muffin Time — something like video game development, or one of those rudimentary 2000s websites where teens wrote stuff to amuse themselves.
On December 9th, things got better, because: she got a meaty role in a school play.
On December 24th, somebody ruined Christmas online. This was: an outbreak of horrifying, lethal violence in the new universe.