How do you read this?

An exploration in the utter strangeness of the written word and our physical reactions to it. (I suppose is how one could describe it.)

Read this.

Make funny little lines mean things.

Associate human scratch with object and action,

noun and verb.

Let’s start.

First pay attention to the dots.

Full stop.

Take time to breathe...

Pay attention!

Let. Me. Make. Your. Inner. Voice.

UNCOMFORTABLE

There was no dot on that one?

What are we going to do?!

(I guess we’ll add some of [this].)

Or, maybe, this, possibly, hm?

What about this;

does that work?

Enough questions.

… I think.

“Well maybe you should decide before you write about it.”

Whose voice was that in?

There are more voices in here

What is going, on?

H-how do-you, even?

WHAT. Is this; punctuation.

This~ should be STARTING to, make s-sense again,

(soon).

I hope.

‘Otherwise this voice is going to go crazy.’

No/stop - this is going to make, your brain. Hurt -

you should stop reading this. THING

And, I don’t know, go read some fanfiction or something.

oh is it fixed

nope

still

cant

write

normalllllly

OH, WELL

(Good-night)

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed it!

Reviews

[DaughterNature]

Quite an interesting exploration of the meaning we assign to letters and punctuation. I don't dislike it, even though it feels unpolished. I love the idea, and I even really love some of the mechanical choices you made... I just want it to feel better? Don't know if that helps, but yeah.

[Aura Inanna]

That makes sense, it's just, experimental, y'know? I didn't really know how to make it feel any better either;; I definitely appreciate the cool critique though. Thanks!

[jjwilbourne]

This was wildly disorienting. I digs.

[Konigin]

hahahahaha. I could barely get through that at the end... That was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great job Aura! :D

[Aura Inanna]

Thank you!

[Konigin]

You're Welcome!

[Ashira Macy]

Well this certainly is different. You succeeded in making my inner voice very uncomfortable, but I think I liked the change. You have to test yourself every once and a while right? Really well done!

[Aura Inanna]

Thanks so much!

[Delmar Cooper]

Do you write fan fiction. I love fan fiction. But, I like pictures of Elvis on black velvet too.

[C. Rose]

Congratulations!
This piece is a finalist in Promote Me!V.
As your reward, I have sent 115 read requests on behalf of this piece.

Voting is open until 10/15/14.
http://www.writerscafe.org/contests/Promote-Me%21-V-%28Experimental%29/50315/
Good Luck!

[Aura Inanna]

Thanks so much!

[C. Rose]

What a fun read! This is what I was hoping for when I went out on a limb and had the theme of Promote Me! V be experimental.
Thank you for sharing :)

[Tamlin]

I really like this! It has always fascinated me how our inner voices stop. Or. CHANGE with punctuation and different layouts.