entranceway | text } Images May Disturb You: the blog of Georgia Mason, entry #1

My name is Georgia Carolyn Mason. I'm a licensed journalist from After the End Times. Five years ago, on a website that is inaccessible from this location, I started my blog and wrote my mission statement: to always tell the truth no matter the cost. For the past several months I've been following Senator Peter Ryman's presidential campaign and reporting on his progress. For the past few minutes, I had been running for my life after someone blew up my trailer. It turns out that cost was a lot higher than I ever anticipated. And that was just zombies and a government conspiracy. What will the cost be for telling this new truth: that I seem to have woken up in a literal fairytale? I tested clean five minutes ago, and hallucinations have never been one of the symptoms of Kellis-Amberlee. I'm forced to conclude that this is, indeed happening and not a very strange dream. I would like nothing more than a way to send this information home so that our readers could know about this, but I've done my research. All sources indicate that is, for the time being, impossible. So, I suppose, I'll just have to start reporting here, and know that someday, should the opportunity arise, I'll be able to bring the news home. In the meantime, if anyone here is a doctor, or even better an epidemiologist or virologist, I have some questions.

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[Hallucinations. See, normal people jump to that conclusion plenty. He's not the only one who must've thought, who must've assumed the only thing wrong with the world was him. Is it reassuring to know the world is just as fucked as you are?

Not really, no. Mostly it's just disquieting.

He could say any number of things that might adequately address the points she's addressing. He could say something insightful, or paranoid, or curious.

But he doesn't.]

you know this isn't a personal blog right?

It's the best I've got right now.

[She itches for a real wireless connection and access to her real blog, but in the absence, at least she's writing. At least she's keeping the signal moving.]

i mean you could record it without posting it to the network.
i mean if you don't want people to see.
if you do congrats i guess.

Yes, I'm actually aware of how blogs and public networks work. You did get the part about me being a licensed journalist, right? Writing for people to see is my job.

yeah i know just

[Should he be bothering?

No. No he shouldn't. No point in it, he'd say.]

never mind.
just don't think people here will appreciate it.

If people not appreciating my work bothered me, I'd have never gone into journalism. Certainly not into the Factual News Division.

as opposed to what?
non-factual news?

i think that's called fiction these days.

As opposed to journalists who dilute their facts with opinion. Though a good news site has a fictional section too. It brings in readers.

or as opposed to journalists who like to spice up the news with a little action.

action news is still news, george. it says it in the title

It's news, but not factual news. You know damn well Irwins aren't the ones that bother me.

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i think sometimes i bother you.

You are a very special and annoying case.

aww, i'm special.

And annoying!

but mostly special

Especially annoying, you idiot.

[This is probably the wrong time to engage in some kind of debate regarding the finer points of journalism. Like all that shit about no such thing as an objective opinion and - yeah, he guesses she'd know better than he would.]

i mean, fair enough.
there's just a hard time figuring out what's fiction and what's not around here.

So I've noticed. But I can only do what I've always done: try and find the truth, and report back to whoever will listen.

i mean we're technically all listening.
but i doubt a lot of people will care.

[Harsh? Maybe, yeah. But he knows how this road goes, and it doesn't tend to go down anyplace good.]

People can do what they want. The point is that they have the option.

and if that option ends up endangering people in the long run?

People are always endangered. This way at least they can prepare themselves for what's coming.

i've heard that before.

[It usually precedes things going irrevocably to hell, but what does he know?]

and what are we supposed to be preparing for exactly?

Keep reading my blog and I'll tell you when I find out.

right that won't be redundant at all.

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