My mouth tastes like copper.
I don’t know why I downloaded it. Three years ago, maybe four. A recommendation from someone whose name I’ve since forgotten. "It’ll mess you up," they said. Good. I wanted to be messed up back then. I wanted a void that matched my own. i--- Annihilation -2018- -MM Sub-.mp4 WORK
The team enters the Shimmer. The colors are wrong. The trees grow in spiral patterns, bark like skin, leaves like fingernails. One soldier stops. She turns to the camera—to me—and smiles. The subtitle reads: She forgot she was already replaced. My mouth tastes like copper