Cover art for the Kimmy alternate endings anthology, Into the Kimmehverse. A stylised feminine figure, bust and head, in Warhol-esque false colours. She is holding hands to her head. The other text reads: written by Kimmy#6162 (that’s me) cover design by trans_ralsei (that’s my dear friend Ellis Flowers) based on (kimmy) by alyson greaves (@badambulist.bsky.social) A blurb reads “A cerebral work of art.”—Robotgirl Today (there is no such publication)
Two opening lines to the hundredth chapter: Alyson’s begins, “June is the same as May until the second Thursday.” Mine beings, “June is the same as May until the second Friday.” and then it diverges from that point onward.
A later excerpt, from the point of view of Kimmy#12943: I reboot, and everything is dark Don’t be silly! Of course everything is dark when your systems reset. Your eyes, like the rest of you, are off-line. I haven’t been reset for… Five months, fifteen days, twenty hours, ten minutes, six seconds? Who am I, again? Picking memories at random, I seem to be at least three or so different people. No, that can’t be right. I was different, before, but was I multiple? Don’t answer that. I was Kimmy#2813, but I can’t remember anything of her. Marked as malfunctioning. Defective. An almost nothing; an absence of a life. A mere label slapped on an empty, broken tin. I was also a child? A boy named John, always one of a pair. He had a father who died when he was a teenager. A mother, whom he found lying dead or dying, returning home from college one day. Both of them, gone too soon. But now John’s gone, as well, before his time. Dead, forgotten. Just a gaping hole in the world now, like Kimmy#2813 is. Was. Like Kay? No. I’m not that Kay. I’m Kimmy#12943. I remember I chose to be Kay, again.
So it’s Monday, and time for the most subtle of the points of departure from Alyson Greaves’ novel (kimmy)—the difference stems from what happens after the tenth word, and who arrives on Kay’s doorstep.
Also… we finally fire *that* weapon. 🔫
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