#altho i always worry so much abt tone and structure shift but bc the mc is different the story is different and so is the structure

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did not mean to make the text that big . sorry for shouting. anyways this story is insane. i can't write a linear narrative for shit & this is somehow more ambitious than the memory of collapse (short story written as a single scene in the past interrupted by a series of scenes in the present). this one, it's written as a braided narrative where the threads are the parallel lives of the mc, isko manlapaz, before, during, and after a fungal apocalypse.

two of the braids are technically set in the past; the last thread in the present. they converge temporally and spatially on the same location as a means to represent the physicality of grief. if the presence is now an absence then the absence is a presence; you must learn to live with it. etc

have not had a real writing sesh in two months since the sem started. isko manlapaz my beloved you are going to have such a horrible time