Join a cutting-edge video game, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.
What they neglected to mention was that jacking your brain into a virtual reality simulation was putting your gray matter at the mercy of morons with associates degrees in game design.
I can’t log out.
My friends are all acting strange. Have they gone mad from being trapped here, or is it just me? Now, just when I thought it couldn’t be worse, I seem to have lost track of time… literally.
I suppose I should take comfort that I got trapped in a triple-A title within this discount metaverse, but according to the robot that looks annoyingly like my best buddy Mich, if I die in here, I die in the real world. And everyone here is trying to kill me.
Oh, and if I go back to Penultimate Phantasm now, I’ve gotta get hitched to a psycho paladin.
Okay... It's a SHINGLES story. It's by a multi-award winning author who loves video games and movies.
Rob(erta) Hardlick, the Boy named Sue and her super intelligent sidekick Mitch manage to learn that a possible long term side effect of being plugged into the ultimate VR simulator is LOSING YOUR MIND! Or is it? Read it to find out!