Short story

Matt: I was watching this show... the one with the boy and the dog. And I was really into it. Watched every episode 24-7. Until this one afternoon, and suddenly, like, something broke. It was just like... pixels. the characters on the screen… I felt like I knew them; they weren't people anymore. They were just shapes. And their lines were just things someone had written: they never existed, they never had feelings. They never would exist, either. And it felt so sad, like I’d just lost these real people, and this whole thing we had, it was just… me. Alone. And like that realization dumped out of the screen and into real life. The jacket I wear? The one where I thought was a symbol of what I stood for? It was just a jacket now. And there was some guy walking by, and he was just shapes, just...this moving bulk of... stuff. And I cried, because nothing was there for me anymore. It was all just stuff. Stuff in the universe, just... dead.

Matt: The next day, I was at a party... and there was this guy who was talking to me. I can't remember his name though... But he too was also just shapes. Just pre-recorded lines someone wrote, like nothing was there. I was scared and angry and before I knew it, I was on top of him, bashing his skull into the ground until Eren and Heather had to pull me off. Luckily Fox got me a bail but I felt like I didn't deserve it... And recently, I've been doing fine but... just last week, I feel nervous meeting new people. I couldn't bring myself to make more friends since I'm afraid they'll just become shapes to me again. And there was this one statue, the shitty one they just built across the street. I think it was the founder... It was pointing down at me and... I was just so... terrified. I locked myself in room, barely eating anything, or ordering a whole pizza for myself, chugging down cough medicine until I feel asleep... and that's how it's been going recently... I stay in this room since the people I know aren't just dead shapes... watching me... Something broke. In my head. In my life.

Damn

Is good