@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ You awaken in an unfamiliar bed, alone. You jolt upright, but "you" are not you; searching for the restroom, you face the mirror and see an unfamiliar face.
Your momentary panic is interrupted by a long beep from "your" bedroom. Cautiously, you return to find an IBM PC, its monochrome green CRT reading:
It is 1985 JANUARY 17 0643
You are CLYDE JOHNSON in ONTARIO
Execution of your program will resume here
Transfer complete; longjmp2() returned successfully.
@curtmack @whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ No. No, no, no no no… This is clearly a mistake. It has to be. You were just fooling around with fediverse shitposts and weird compilers. No way this just happened. But it looks real. Feels real. Like the cold of the room, the whirring of the PC fan, the blinking of the cursor.
The cursor. What if… there's a way back? You got here, surely there's a way back?
Cautiously, you type out letter by letter:
unfork();
Enter.
Nothing. Then a rumble. Then sirens in the distance.
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