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You! Winnifred Meyer. Remember? You are Winnifred Meyer, and you died at age twenty-six in a car accident.


A Twinefied adaption of Compassionate Simulation, a short story by Rachel Swirsky and P H Lee. Originally published in Uncanny Magazine - here. I adapted it with the authors' permission; the adaption's original publication was in sub-Q magazine - here.

Glitching, eyestrain, text-size, and speed of timed text can be turned off or adjusted in the accessibility settings.

Content note: abuse

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
AuthorAster F
GenreInteractive Fiction
TagsCyberpunk, Dark, Narrative, Sci-fi, Story Rich, Twine

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(+1)

i thought this was an excellent work.

i wrote a review of it here, on my website.

it's ~300 words so i don't know why i'm linking it instead of just copy-pasting it. oh well! too late to fix that.

review of Compassionate Simulation

this is beautifully written, thank you for the kind review. i'll share your words with the original authors too.

(+1)

I read this last year and it struck something very deep inside me, thanks. 

(+1)

Thank you! And thank you for coming back to comment after a year!

(+2)

Wow. How sad and tragic. Very well narrated, congrats

Warning: that's a difficult story, see content note.

Glad to see there are Accessibility settings for glitch and font!

(+3)

Thank you! I didn't write any of the narration but I will pass that on to the original writers ^^