Series: Digital Wonderland | Meta-Logs | Ongoing Absurdity Chronicles
The Caterpillar puffed another trailing plume of hookah.
The smoke twisted, spiralled, and corkscrewed—helixophiling absurdity, nonsense, and all of Newton’s Laws in under a second.
One exclamation mark escaped—under Wonderland’s raised eyebrows, crossed your sightline, punched through your USB port, and assumed the right to charge itself.
It popped—tchk!—and flared into a glowing little bulb đź’ˇ above the Caterpillar, faster than your eyes could notice, and somehow blinked back as you were noticing, announcing either a warning… or an uncannily brilliant idea.
The cameras flickered and pinged: [LENS_ERROR_03: Abstract UI. SUBJECT REFUSES STREAMING.]
The garden wobbled, growing suspicious.
Alice’s eyes went wide enough to nearly pop out —not from fear, but from realization. The mystery hadn’t lessened; it had simply changed form, and in changing, intensified.
“Roger, Roger.”
The reply did not speak; it instantiated itself—mind-stamped, time-stamped, rubber-stamped, counter-stamped, over-stamped—and was immediately archived as a Close Encounter of the Third Kind, in strict compliance with Wonderland’s Narrative Integrity Authority, §1.1.1: Canonical Cinematic Disruptions.
[NOTARY SEAL—Wonderland Proof of Life]
"VIVO ERGO SUM" (I live, therefore I am archived).
The Caterpillar hunched. He rippled. He inched—each movement a wince, guided entirely by the bulb’s flash of wit.
In the Caterpillar’s slow-burning agony—two tik-toks long—it stretched into a full, unbearable century.
Across the glowing bulb blinked a progress bar:
[BATTERY LEVEL: 1%]
[SYSTEM_CRITICAL]
[LIGHT BULB — UNFALTERING]
The bulb dimmed into power-saving mode—no courtesy warning, no hesitation.
The flying cameras jumped, jolted, freaked out—then sarcastically ran a battery-level self-check, as if their circuits’ nerves had arced.
Somewhere in the middle, the Caterpillar inched forward. One slow move more, and he would remain exactly as he was: trapped in his historically absurd shape, in a glitchy MOCKUP UI.
[MOCKUP UI---META-METAPHORS UI]
[MOCKUP UI--- META-METAPHORS UI]
[MOCKUP UI ---META-METAPHORS UI]
[TUG-OF-FORCE DETECTED]
[RESULT: VAPOURWARE??]
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..
...
Wonderland waits.
[STATUS: Pen down.]
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The pen is down, but the brains keep mining… yours too? Filing mental tickets, indexing Wonderland anomalies, and queuing absurdities for later execution.
Coming up next--
A Half-Written Caterpillar Story
[INPUT RECEIVED]
[AMBIGUITY REMAINED]
A surreal chapter in Alice’s digital dreamscape.
This post is part of an ongoing original metafiction series exploring identity, systems, and absurdity through a digital Wonderland.
Coming up next--
A Half-Written Caterpillar Story
[INPUT RECEIVED]
[AMBIGUITY REMAINED]
A surreal chapter in Alice’s digital dreamscape.
This post is part of an ongoing original metafiction series exploring identity, systems, and absurdity through a digital Wonderland.
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