####Sight
<div class="st">White billowing in the |tooltip>[window|tooltiptext>[Death mask white apparel. Blood on the abdomen like a surgery scar. Nullified.]]. Cold-tint harsh |tooltip>[lamp|tooltiptext>[6700K. Too bright. Stay awake until the autopsy's over.]]. Need to put those clothes away after this. Empty record sleeve. Fuelrot iron maiden |tooltip>[corpse|tooltiptext>[Closed casket with gossamer wings.]] clotted shut.</div>
<div class="m">Here lies the largest known species in the order of <i>Ephemeroptera</i>.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[Its frame was not built to sustain itself.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[It's envied by other creatures for its vibrant carapace: easy to separate with gentle pressure.</div>
(link-reveal-goto: "next")[ (track: "myMusic", "play", "loop", true) ]]]####Touch
<div class="st"> |tooltip>[Hardwood floor |tooltiptext>[Pacing-worn. Wetted.]]. Old rotten blood paints new blue |tooltip>[thighs |tooltiptext>[Shaking.]]. Soft newspaper |tooltip>[lapping |tooltiptext>[Useless stream of incoherency.]] slow. Warm wind cold fans. </div>
<div class="m">I hope you don't mind if I take what's left of it. One girl's trash, and all that.</div>
[[next->three]]####Sound
<div class="st">Rush of |tooltip>[water |tooltiptext>[Forever and ever amen. So shall it be.]]. Stock cicada buzz. Drainpipe rattles |tooltip>[three times a minute |tooltiptext>[Compulsively counting down all the time now, second after second after second.]]. Steel skin doth protest too much, methinks. |tooltip>[Hand changes hands.|tooltiptext>[A laying down of arms.]] </div>
<div class="m">...
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[<div style="overflow:auto; width: 3px; height:300px;"></div>Tell me if you want to trade back, okay.
[[next->four]]]</div>####Smell
<div class="st">Geosmin. |tooltip>[Isopropyl alcohol |tooltiptext>[Out, damned spot, out, I say!]].</div>
<div class="m"> I think I could have played your part, by the way. I have all the lines memorized, even if I don't have your natural predisposition for the role. <p>(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[I can still keep you circulating, even if it's to dead air. Radio repeater for a neutron star. <p>(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[The signal degrades, though. Faulty conduit.</div>
[[next->five]]]]####Taste
<div class="st">Ichorous biomass. Ballistic gelatin, a |tooltip>[savory dish. |tooltiptext>[Aged, sunburnt and rotten.]]</div>
<div class="m">I should be satisfied with what little I have of you left.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[<div style="overflow:auto; width: 3px; height:300px;"></div>I still can't help thinking about it.</div>
[[next->six]]]####Time
<div class="st">Superstructures of thought. Reality viewed |tooltip>[ through two slits |tooltiptext>[Altered by perception.]].</div>
<div class="m">The infinite monkey theorem. Or Borges' library.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[By law of large numbers, everything you can still say to me is lost in an infinite number of procedurally generated, unheard utterances.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[So which grain of sand are you? Which star? How long would it take to find you?
[[next->seven]]]]</div></div>####Space
<div class="st">Stage for |tooltip>[solo performance|tooltiptext>[Playset includes kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, life of one in injection-molded plastic. Breaks easily under stress. Do not expose to direct sunlight.]]. Shard of sun piercing orange through the heart of the corpse, lit from stage left. Wrong cue. Put those clothes |tooltip>[away|tooltiptext>[No, cut and stitch them to fit glass splinter wings. Redgiant taxidermy shell glows in the dusk, strings severed, tie them back up pray for a second coming soon. Seven years of tribulation and no more. The sky will darken, but the sunshine remains.]].</div>
<div class="m">The reality is that I'd never be able to tell, in the end.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[I'd get a message from you, amidst the deluge of white noise nonsense phrases, and I would never realize.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[Live burial in infinite Markov iterations.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[...
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[<div style="overflow:auto; width: 3px; height:200px;"></div>The thought still brings me comfort.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[It means the idea of you is still out there. You haven't been fully erased. Metadata paper cutout.
[[next->eight]]]]]]]myMusic: https://file.garden/ZRZCFmwU6kvwz15s/neocities/045.mp3####Mirror
<div class="st">Three eyes. Seven |tooltip>[hands|tooltiptext>[Two of them pulling at congealed psuedo-carpillary tubing. Aspic under her hands.]]. Four hours. Five hundred meters of |tooltip>[freefall|tooltiptext>[Death //after// impact. Go out like a water balloon.]].</div>
<div class="m">Aphasic dead ringer or brainfog facsimile?
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[Who will be successor to your throne, mayfly? Neither of these subjects are equipped to lead your memory onward.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[<div style="overflow:auto; width: 3px; height:200px;"></div>Should have written a will, buddy. Don't let strangers fight over your cuts of soul and body next time.
[[next->nine]]]]####Face
<div class="st">Rain |tooltip>[knocking|tooltiptext>[She nearly gets up to check the window.]] at the door. Funeral wear baptized in window screen splatter. Shadows |tooltip>[paulstretched|tooltiptext>[Years long. Darkness forever.]].</div>
<div class="m">You should know.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[<div style="overflow:auto; width: 3px; height:100px;"></div>I notice you everywhere, now. It's stupid, frankly.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[You'd have thought I'd get over it by now. But I still see you between the lines of all the pages I dog-ear.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[I repair my body and see your ransacked circuits instead.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[I glimpse you in the corner of my eye on a sunny day. When I turn to greet you, all I see are broken pieces of light, as if you've just exploded out of view.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[I'm seeing you now, blood pooling in your eye like an unwept tear.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[You're staring back at me, in my mind's eye. Wings folded. I can't hear what you say. You look pretty.
[[next->ten]]]]]]]]####Voice
<div class="st">Right hand clean and |tooltip>[pomegranate red|tooltiptext>[Hell grants gifts in abundance.]]. Shards of offal slough into |tooltip>[the drain|tooltiptext>[Born again in imperishable seed.]].</div>
<div class="m">So stay, please.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[I know it's selfish.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[Watch me a for a while longer.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[I'll live for you, for as long as you keep your eye on me.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[Goodnight, V2.
(t8n:"dissolve")+(link:">>")[<div style="overflow:auto; width: 3px; height:200px;"></div>I'll see you tomorrow.
[[END->end]]
]]]]]</div>(text-colour:grey)[4/29/2022 - 4/29/2026]<h4>AUTOPSY FOR TWO</h4><div class="st">Writing / code - (link-rerun: "mothcpu")[(open-url:"https://mothcpu.net")]
Music - (link-rerun: "The Wicked Cease from Struggling")[(open-url:"https://archive.org/details/045--TheWickedCeaseFromStruggling")] by Bull of Heaven
Based on (link-rerun: "ULTRAKILL")[(open-url:"https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229490/ULTRAKILL")] and (link-rerun: "Dream's End Come True")[(open-url:"https://v2isdead.com")].
</div>
(text-colour:grey)[Made in Twine 2 (Harlowe 3.2.3)]