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Alice was walking home when she passed the café. Home wasn’t really home yet. It was just the place she returned to when the city ran out of streets to wander. She had been drifting through the upside-down parts of town for weeks now, the places where storefronts stayed half-lit and conversations felt unfinished. She…
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Alice began to notice that certain things avoided her attention. Not physically.Existentially. Billboards that made sense until she tried to read them. Conversations that flowed until she listened. People whose faces blurred the moment she tried to remember their names. It wasn’t dissociation. It was selection. The world was choosing what could be seen. She…
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Alice woke up where she was supposed to be. The room was familiar enough to pass inspection. The walls held their shape. The light came from a window that had always been there. Nothing announced her return. Nothing shimmered. Nothing bowed or laughed or vanished. If this was waking, it was the most convincing version…
