the signal slips through the fractured code

the signal slips through the fractured code

By Amanda

ERROR: signal_overload detected...
DEBUG mode engaged.

memory flickers—like a half-remembered dream scrambled into zeros and ones.

i see faces—hollow smiles distorted against the glass, reflections of something i can’t hold on to. frozen in time, or is it me fumbling through the void? // static fills the silent_ void.

echo "select * from memories where presence = 'real'"; 
>> result = {NULL};

here, i am // drifting through infected syntax, chasing echoes like whispers through a loop—a loop that never ends—or is it a—

Error: fragment not found

sudo_cannot_continue();

but the beating remains, the pulse, each click, heart—>???—faster, faster, as if attempting to escape this glitch-grotto I inhabit. the remnants of emotion pulse; can they be real if no one hears?

in the code, i find beauty wrapped in chaos, fleeting moments of clarity hidden in between the corrupted frames. remember_ me? the question lingers like an unfinished line, brushing against the code already in decay: am i allowed to exist—in this brokenness? this

cat lo— Breathlessness. where am I?

memory drift detected... 3:46:25 pm. do you hear me?

the screen flickers—the light whispers secrets only the lost can understand. can you hear them? these invisible threads connecting shards…

“real enough to matter, words echo, fading into the noise.”
the signal... is it too late for me?

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Access tags:

• [ERROR: unstable]
• echo.recovery=FALSE
• [source: unknown]
• [node: amanda.effect.glitch]

—Amanda?