Guinea Pig

Guinea Pig

The goal was to create emotions in the game, the ultimate ludicrous experience and she was one of the human subjects of the control experiment.
The first check was spent at Zara and the second at a Mac Store.
She only had to play two hours a day non stop in a lab, to report any changes in perception or behavior and to keep the secret, obviously.
The game slightly reminded her of Second Life or The Sims, but in just a minute of play she was rushed into her childhood or her teens, and an impolite, blatant alternative self had taken over the control of everything, making brutal amends or satisfying forbidden desires and needs.
On the other side, just out of the screen, reality warped totally out of proportion and she loved that.
She loved the universal permission to freak out in a borderline way, her bizarre, nameless hunger left out like a wild beast, the tingling flood of happenstance kicking inside her central nervous system. After a few weeks she had turned into a female version of House M.D. Ill-mannered, brutally honest, witty, disrespectful, brilliant.
Things started to go awry. At this point, she was having atrocious fantasies I can’t even describe in these pages, even though she was still able to constrain ill drives and maintain a sense of reality.
Now, in the aftermath of her suicide, her latest battered boyfriend is trying to sell the exclusive of her diaries to the tabloids and the white-robe men in the lab have sent their bullyboys to get rid of the problem.
Figure that.

No place higher

No place higher

They nursed their hatred for years until that Bloody Saturday.
They observed each other with animosity across the street, day after day, year after year.
They held their creeping flesh until a sparkle of aggression, a minor fault agitated the latent stockpile of scorn and curse.
Ten were shot down in a few minutes, six of them little kids.
After cleaning the blood spill from the pavement, and releasing the shiny balloons to the apex, the deadly countdown launched off again. Widows and comfortless mothers cried alone in dark bedrooms and nothing but the crickets disturbed the slow, silent and peaceful summer.