Episode 29 - Windows Took Over / A Digital Wonderland

Series: Digital Wonderland | Meta-Logs | Ongoing Absurdity Ch ronicles

Alice, much like the girl next door, possessed no innate power—this she knew all the way to her very fingertips.

With a soft metallic relief, the embarrassed identity—⊥Iᗺᗺ∀ꓤ ˙M—on the brass plate atop the door shied away into a blur.

The letters soon reconfigured into a scholarly, hopeful title: A Hundred Ways to Escape—as though Wonderland, somehow apologetic, had conjured a long wand of possibilities, so far-reaching that its final spark might have not found Alice.    (Lumos… Nox instead.)

“What a book without illustrations,” she murmured. “All I lack is speed-reading—that’s simple—anything to outrun the crawl among the bad sectors.”

In the corner, along the ridgepole, an empty, neckless bottle reclined in perfect idleness, its label having chosen to blank itself, too nervous to volunteer another DRINK ME-style chaos.

Meanwhile, the window, rousing from a lazy drowse, blinked once… then twice.

A legend—short but precise—flickered into existence:

Lumos. Solis. — EXIT WINDOW —

A soft sigh slipped from Alice’s lips. “Alright… though I never quite know what world they’ll open into next.

Lumos...Maxima...

Lumos...Solis...

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Episode 19 - Nullity and Hum / A Digital Wonderland

Series: Digital Wonderland | Meta-Logs | Ongoing Absurdity Chronicles

Alice lifted the obliged bottle with extreme care, as though it might uninstall itself at a careless touch. Then, quite without consulting the rest of herself, she took a sip.

The taste was impossible to describe, which of course made it terribly interesting—part strawberry, part apothecary, and part… something that did not quite belong to syllable at all.

For one infinitesimal moment, she felt the room hesitate—as if waiting for her to save her progress.

Then Alice was caught in it.

The walls bent inward like soft clay, the ceiling drooped like a heavy curtain, and the floor curled at the edges. The effect was not gradual but total: her surroundings were reformatting themselves, wrapping up her as they went.

Her thoughts, too, began to fragment—one whispering behind her ear, another straying somewhere about her toe.

What was once a room resolved into a nullity.

And amid that nullity rose a long, sinking hum—the unmistakable drone of a Windows shutdown.

Alas, Alice had no room to hum along—a most regrettable error both in design and in situation, for she was always so fond of a good one.

Episode 4 - Windows For Alice / A Digital Wonderland

Series: Digital Wonderland | Meta-Logs | Ongoing Absurdity Chronicles 

“Double-hung? Casement? Or Bay Window?” cried the White Rabbit.

He looked excited, as though he knew everything — which a rabbit seldom did. And, most surprising of all, he seemed to have the upper paw.

Alice blinked, puzzled.

“Double… this sounds rather big,” she whispered.

The Rabbit tapped his pocket twice; the air rippled, and a glittering windowpane shimmered into place, floating in midair.

“Step through!” urged the Rabbit.

“Quickly now — before it shuts itself down.”

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