None of This is True by Jewell Lisa

Author:Jewell, Lisa [Jewell, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781804940228
Publisher: Cornerstone
Published: 2023-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

Hi! I’m Your Birthday Twin!

A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

Screen shows three young people sitting on high stools in a dimly lit bar. Two young women, one young man.

They’re casually dressed in jeans and T-shirts; they all have tattoos and one of them wears a beanie hat.

The text below reads:

Ari, Juno and Dan: subscribers to gaming platform Glitch

The man speaks first. He has an American accent:

‘So, yeah, I think we were all just kind of messing about that night. We had a couple friends over, we’d had a few beers, it was a hot July night. All the windows were open. So we weren’t paying as much attention as we normally would. We weren’t, you know, like rapt .’

Interviewer, off-mic: ‘So you were normally rapt?’

‘Yeah. I guess. I mean – she was amazing. We just knew her as her player name. Erased.’

Interviewer, off-mic: ‘Her player name was Erased?’

‘Yeah. I can see now that was sort of a play on words, sort of a combination of her real name and a comment on her real life. But we didn’t know anything about her real life. She was just Erased to us. She played with a, like, green screen backdrop – so we couldn’t see her actual room; it looked like she was in an empty warehouse. She was really quiet. She virtually whispered. That’s unusual in this world. But that was part of what made her cool. So it was the noise that alerted us that something weird was happening.’

‘From your computer?’

‘Yeah. We saw her getting off her chair and she never did that. She never moved. And she disappeared and it was all kind of a blur, because of the green screen. You know how it messes with movement? Screaming. Shouting. Banging. And then it went dead. Literally, just dead. Her chair sat there, empty. We watched and we watched and we watched and she did not come back. And we all started messaging each other. Like, all over the world. But nobody knew where she lived. Nobody knew her real name. Nobody knew anything about her.’

The girl in the beanie hat speaks.

‘We had footage of the whole thing. I called the police. They were like, what do you want us to do about it? She’s on the other side of the world. We sent the footage to Glitch. They didn’t have a physical address for her. Just an IP address and email details. They told us she was in, like, North London? So we started messaging anyone we knew in North London. We just became obsessed with this thing. It went viral. In the community. It was all anyone was talking about. And then suddenly, just as we were getting close to finding out who she was and where she lived, the story broke. And then holy crap, our minds blew. Our minds just totally and utterly blew .’

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