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Saint-Lazare's avatar

Genius, I like that you got that nightmare from Rebekah's essay 😁💀

Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

For me, this is how good academia works - critique and review sparks ideas, which creates new stories, which can spark critique and review.... That's how healthy creative culture should work 🙂 I enjoy Rebekah's writing and subject choices, so that makes it fertile ground for the imagination!

William's World's avatar

Great read.

Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

Jared's avatar

This is awesome!! 🤩

Pages After Dark's avatar

“Under the child-god sun and within the suit, my flesh baked. Sweat pooled inside the padding, making it moist and grating on my skin, rubbing me raw. I fought against it, trying to rip it from my body. Perhaps it looked like I was dancing, because the sun looked down and laughed at my suffering, its eyes the blue of an infinite and uncaring universe.”

This long quote has got to be my favorite part of the story. Your writing is fantastic! The way you use words makes the piece lyrical and entertaining to read.

Rebekah King's avatar

This. Is. Awesome.

Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Thanks for the inspiration!

FranB's avatar

I've always thought the Teletubbies were creepy. Now I know why!

Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

It was seriously freaky stuff.

Hobbes's avatar

Now it's all starting to make sense. Those faces - forced into perpetual smiles, grimacing at their captors. Nightmarish indeed

Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Don't even get me started on what goes into 'tubby-tustard' 😱