Linguistic Erosion

Contributor: David Elliott - - ‘One year.’ He’d clicked on the link, entering the website for the first time in his life. ‘One year, and it’s come to this.’ Three-hundred-and-sixty-five days ago, Brian had come up with a plan. He’d decided to spend the rest of his life online; no more human interaction, no more disastrous relationships, no more work, no more physical activities. Brian was going to become a fully-fledged virtual person, a cyber-hermit, and how wonderful it might have been, if anything about his plan, his scheme, his anxiety-avoiding blueprint for a better way of life, had actually worked. And maybe it could have worked, if circumstances had been different; if he hadn’t accidentally stumbled upon lonelysouls.com. Brian wasn’t a lonely soul, of course. The idea was completely...

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