• flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    “I’m scared,” says Ralph.

    But I am an author, and take control of this story. Ralph does not understand fear. His existence was short, his history nonexistent, his understanding of the world and his place within it unreal, characterized by the agony of going from non-being, to screaming awareness all in an instant.

    The author has returned Ralph to the imaginary realm from which he sprang, freeing him, and any unwitting victims who witnessed his short, confusing reality.

    Truly, the only monster here was the first narrator, a casual god who created Ralph only to serve as an instrument of suffering.