ThorGunvald

Go to sleep

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 11 in The dangers of mild success

Try Baking

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 10 in The dangers of mild success

You occasionally think about cooking for yourself, but when you do your thoughts typically drift to baking, specifically. Food is food, sure, but there's something about pulling... bread, for example, out of the oven, that feels especially... cooky. Fun, somehow. This isn't that...

Go to sleep

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 11 in The dangers of mild success

Have more!

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 5 in The dangers of mild success

Figuring you've got nowhere to be, you head back to the kitchen for a refill. You feel like you're on a roll, and don't want to stop now, not with the promise of the story getting juicier. It still feels... a little embarrassing, for this reason and that, but certainly not at a l...

Pass Out.

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 6 in The dangers of mild success

Have some more!

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Chapter 7 in The dangers of mild success

--In which case, why stop there? Watch ANOTHER movie? You get a refill on your wine, still with a face puffy from crying, and start another one. Naturally, it's pretty-light hearted in comparison. Sweet, funny. But it's too late for you. You're now a vicious cycle of thinking ab...

Pass Out.

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Chapter 8 in The dangers of mild success

Have some more!

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Chapter 9 in The dangers of mild success

NO DEAL. You get a refill. After all, bigger is better. More is better. YOU, ARE BETTER. You walk back to the living room... but deviate, into your own room, looking at the entrepreneur in the mirror. It isn't just that you're successful, you realize, but that you're SECURE. Ther...

Pass Out.

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 10 in The dangers of mild success

Have some more!

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 11 in The dangers of mild success

Such a rare, good mood! And So much time left in the day! Why the hell ruin it finding some chore or errand! You refill your glass, and open the back door, even though you're still in your PJ's, and step out into the sun! Aah, even in Autumn it's so warm, today! And cozy, even!...

Somehow find your way home and Pass Out.

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Chapter 12 in The dangers of mild success

Have some more!

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Chapter 13 in The dangers of mild success

Ugh, your imagination is enjoying humiliating you, as if you weren't in charge of it. You can't believe it, tonight. You can't believe you're going for a refill. Even as you go, you're trying to think about anything else. ...It doesn't work. Thirty minutes later, you're alrea...

Pass Out.

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 14 in The dangers of mild success

You randomly remember that bottle of Vodka...

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 12 in The dangers of mild success

You consider a glass of wine. Or at least, it occurs to you enough to consider it, but you recall the bottle is just about empty, now. That's fine, too, right? It was a fun little time, and that's no big deal. --Not like you have a CHOICE, right? You're not gonna GO OUT JUST FOR...

Wake up.

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 13 in The dangers of mild success

(Everything that was in _italics_, has been forgotten.) You stir. Oh, you realize you're awake. Being able to move feels like a surprise, somehow... --Everything hurts. A cold chill shoots up your spine, and you immediately retch, onto the cool floor beside you. Attempting to at...

Epilogue (When you drink again)

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 14 in The dangers of mild success

(Author's note: I have to end this before I get carried away even more, as it's meant just to acquaint myself with CHYOA. If I ever continued it, the MC would realize the relief was due to accumulating life stress she was ignoring and gaslighting herself as success, versus the me...

BONUS: The hookup

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Chapter 15 in The dangers of mild success

Andrew and Steve were busy, quite busy heroically holding up the wall of the local gas-station. Both freshmen in the local community college, Andrew was a pale, taller man, and had tight, curly dirty-blonde hair, shiny blonde in the sun but musty brown otherwise, while Steve was...

Introduction

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 1 in The dangers of mild success

You close the door to your apartment, and immediately kick off your heels. They're not tall heels, but they're certainly not sneakers either. The immediate silence, you are too aware of -- after noticing it once, and how it was somehow, ironically deafening, it was hard to ignore...

Drink some wine

by ThorGunvald

Chapter 2 in The dangers of mild success

You ponder things, and swing back to the fridge. Opening the door, you pull the wine bottle out. It's fancy, for sure, but you can't tell if it's been opened or not, even now -- since it's custom made, there isn't a special wax seal or anything on top -- they must have skimped ou...

Take a bath

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Chapter 2 in The dangers of mild success

You decide it's been some time since you took a nice, embellishing bath for yourself. As you head into your bathroom, you float the idea of lighting candles and all that, but after just a few seconds it feels more like a nightmare of catching your house or hair on fire, or some s...