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"Serks, c'mere! You've gotta check out this

  • "Serks, c'mere! You've gotta check out this view!" Meenah's face lit up with childlike wonder as she entered the hotel room. Aranea trailed a few steps behind, carrying their bags.

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  • The decor was fashioned after certain rooms in Elvis' Graceland mansion, one of the specialty units in the trendy hotel. "O God," complained Serks. "Tack-yyy!" Delighted, Meenah

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  • Took me apart and counted the pieces - all 3,506,468 of them. Each piece had its own name. I was now 3,506,468 people! This made the evening news, which my mum watched.

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  • Along with 3,506,468 other people. I was a ratings hit, but all the people were me. As I watched the news report about my own fragmentation and amalgamation into the population

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  • I noticed that the news reporter was also me. In fact, I was everywhere and everyone else was gone. It was just me, me, me everywhere I looked, and it made me sick. I tried to call

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  • 911, hoping that some nice emergency operator would pick up the phone and assure me that I was just having some sort of episode. My own voice answered the call:

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  • "The Me Line, how might I help me?" I hung up. I was everywhere. There was no place to hide from myself.

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  • Me in the bookshelves, me on the coffee table, me staring at myself through the window... I WAS TAKING OVER! I aggressively pinched myself to see if it was a sick dream. It wasn't.

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  • I *actually* existed. WHAT?! How could this be?! It didn’t make sense. One second I was traveling through the clown dimensions at full speed when suddenly Kirby appeared and kicked

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  • the bucket. "Well, that was anticlimactic," I said as I continued to ponder my existence. If I could witness the death of a popular video game character, I was capable of anything.

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2 Comments

  1. Col.Lingus Feb 26 2025 @ 02:41

    hang up the phone? Do people still use that phrase?

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