I'm trying something. Abstract, impressionist short stories and sonic sketches. Written, recorded and published within a morning. No AI involved.
This is the eighth.
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Thank you for your interest in The Assignment. You have two quanta to complete this questionnaire. Begin now.
1. The red sun is high, the blue low.
a. True
b. False
2. Vandrozen’s Cartusius is a theorem that explains:
a. Why I feel so alone
b. How might we…
c. What if?
d. When we cease to understand the world
3. Who wins a time war?
a. Someone
b. Everyone
c. No one
4. On November 7th, 2010, on Planet Earth, you inject heroin for the last time. You’ve long lost the means to procure a quantity that achieves a euphoric high. You beg and steal steal from friends and family so you can acquire enough dime bags to keep your skin from crawling, your joints from screaming in pain, and your feral animal from emerging. You’ve heard that dealers are starting to lace the heroin with a substance called fentanyl, which is resulting in an epidemic of overdose deaths. You’ve died twice from overdoses and been brought back to life. You would welcome a death with no return. You turn the key in the door to your parents’ house with three bags in your pocket. Your mother immediately confronts you about the checks you tried to forge. Sobbing, she screams, “Why won’t you stop?” over and over and over and over and over and over. Do you:
a. Leave and shoot up what remains
b. Find a length of rope and the nearest forest
c. Ask for help
5. In the event that you don’t return from The Assignment, choose an epitaph.
a. Death fears me
b. Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
c. 01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01100011 01101100 01101111 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01110011
d. Other
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