Unstable and Undaunted
A small drawn cartoon girl in a white dress, mid-pirouette on tiptoe, reaches up toward a tipped-over brown pill bottle glowing with a heart-shaped highlight. Loose white pills trail across a dark fabric surface between her and the bottle

Magic

A pencil-and-ink drawing of a cracked, broken eggshell shaped like a wine glass, with a single red drop bleeding from the crack, over the words "Thrill claimed me". Scattered around it, in cursive script, are fragments of unraveling thought and snatches of sheet music, reading "Am I God?", "Help.", "Can I sleep for a bit?", "What more is there to burn?", "A place where what is does not matter...", "Stab and kill every last thought", "I want to be home", "Pretending my footsteps are not deafening", "Burning! Burning!", "Ecstasy unspooled", and, along the bottom, "I fade away into nothingness"

Sanity: Lost or Found?

A textured acrylic painting of a small sailboat with a silhouetted figure standing aboard, drifting into a blazing red-orange sunset where sky meets sea. Above, a red nebula-like sky is scattered with stars and a ringed, crescent-lit planet in the upper corner; swathes of blue, red, orange and yellow paint frame the scene like parted curtains

Well, I do

A figure with long black hair and white headphones, face blank and featureless, against a smoky grey background scattered with red petals. An arc of brightly coloured musical notes, treble clefs and sharps rises from the headphones and haloes the head

Armour of Melody, Shield of Passion

A Pokemon-style battle screen. A person in a red shirt, seen from behind, faces a scribbled black blob with red eyes. The opponent's health bar reads UNIVERSE at level infinity with full HP; the player's reads SAD PROTAGONIST with a sliver of HP left. The dialogue box says "UNIVERSE used EXISTENTIAL CRISIS! It's super effective! What should SAD PROTAGONIST do?" and the move options are CRY, MOPE, NAP and SCREAM

Existential Crisis

A coloured-pencil drawing split diagonally, as if a page is being peeled back. The left half blazes with a sunset sky, swirling Van Gogh-like currents of red, orange and blue, and a small plane trailing a banner reading BIPOLAR AIRLINES. The right half is drained to grey graphite, showing bare buildings, a hanging spider, a looming skull-like shape, and three hunched figures on an empty street. Page 704 of 18396 is handwritten in the lower corner

Page 704 of 18396

Books leaned together like a tent in the dark, sheltering a tiny campfire, while glowing cyan neuron-like filaments branch out into the blackness around them Story

I Expected Magic

I expected magic. I thought One word And the stars would settle I thought One touch And the fire would simmer I thought One note …Read the story
A landscape viewed along a wooded trail Story

Off the Trail

Heading out on my magnificent quest My sword is sheathed and buckled across my chest The thrill of dragons and magic doors The …Read the story
A small drawn cartoon girl in a white dress, mid-pirouette on tiptoe, reaches up toward a tipped-over brown pill bottle glowing with a heart-shaped highlight. Loose white pills trail across a dark fabric surface between her and the bottle

Magic

A pencil-and-ink drawing of a cracked, broken eggshell shaped like a wine glass, with a single red drop bleeding from the crack, over the words "Thrill claimed me". Scattered around it, in cursive script, are fragments of unraveling thought and snatches of sheet music, reading "Am I God?", "Help.", "Can I sleep for a bit?", "What more is there to burn?", "A place where what is does not matter...", "Stab and kill every last thought", "I want to be home", "Pretending my footsteps are not deafening", "Burning! Burning!", "Ecstasy unspooled", and, along the bottom, "I fade away into nothingness"

Sanity: Lost or Found?

A textured acrylic painting of a small sailboat with a silhouetted figure standing aboard, drifting into a blazing red-orange sunset where sky meets sea. Above, a red nebula-like sky is scattered with stars and a ringed, crescent-lit planet in the upper corner; swathes of blue, red, orange and yellow paint frame the scene like parted curtains

Well, I do

A figure with long black hair and white headphones, face blank and featureless, against a smoky grey background scattered with red petals. An arc of brightly coloured musical notes, treble clefs and sharps rises from the headphones and haloes the head

Armour of Melody, Shield of Passion

A Pokemon-style battle screen. A person in a red shirt, seen from behind, faces a scribbled black blob with red eyes. The opponent's health bar reads UNIVERSE at level infinity with full HP; the player's reads SAD PROTAGONIST with a sliver of HP left. The dialogue box says "UNIVERSE used EXISTENTIAL CRISIS! It's super effective! What should SAD PROTAGONIST do?" and the move options are CRY, MOPE, NAP and SCREAM

Existential Crisis

A coloured-pencil drawing split diagonally, as if a page is being peeled back. The left half blazes with a sunset sky, swirling Van Gogh-like currents of red, orange and blue, and a small plane trailing a banner reading BIPOLAR AIRLINES. The right half is drained to grey graphite, showing bare buildings, a hanging spider, a looming skull-like shape, and three hunched figures on an empty street. Page 704 of 18396 is handwritten in the lower corner

Page 704 of 18396

Books leaned together like a tent in the dark, sheltering a tiny campfire, while glowing cyan neuron-like filaments branch out into the blackness around them Story

I Expected Magic

I expected magic. I thought One word And the stars would settle I thought One touch And the fire would simmer I thought One note And the music would quieten I expected magic. I have held this spell …Read the story
A landscape viewed along a wooded trail Story

Off the Trail

Heading out on my magnificent quest My sword is sheathed and buckled across my chest The thrill of dragons and magic doors The unknown is a compelling force Mysteries and shiny hoards galore I seek it …Read the story
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