Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Real life | 15 February 2018

I trashed the screen — accidentally on subliminally purpose, then pretended I couldn’t get another one

issue 17 February 2018

After much thought, I am toying with the idea of faking my own death.

I mean in a virtual sense, but as virtual reality is more important than physical reality nowadays, this is pretty heavy stuff.

Specifically, I want to cease to exist on Facebook, Twitter and all other social networking platforms, where I barely exist anyway because they frighten me so much, but where I have what is known as ‘a presence’.

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