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Psychosis (Matt Dymerski)
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Psychosis is a 2013 short story written by Matt Dymerski. In it, a young man named John, suffering from severe paranoia, barricades himself inside his basement apartment. He's convinced that some kind of alien presence has taken over the world, but he's not quite sure. As the outside world beckons, he begins to wonder if his delusions are actually justified.Can be read here. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_1869b4b1 | comment |
Unreliable Narrator: John isn't exactly the most sane guy you'll ever read about. Most of the story calls into question if you can trust what he's saying and if his suspicions are reasonable or if he's just insane. In the end, it turns out he is insane, but was completely right about the invasion. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_22cf536c | comment |
Chekhov's Gun: John's discarded webcam on the floor. If he hadn't realized it was still recording, it's very possible he would've opened the door to the entity. | |
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| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_3aec9e5e | type |
Properly Paranoid | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_3aec9e5e | comment |
Properly Paranoid: The story flip-flops between portraying John as this and just plain insane. It turns out he was right in the end, however. | |
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| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_47f5fe7d | type |
Inscrutable Aliens | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_47f5fe7d | comment |
Inscrutable Aliens: Very little is known about exactly what the entity looks like, save for a brief passage in the last chapter that implies the entity is able to control people with long tendrils, as if they were marionettes. | |
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Scully Syndrome | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_4918b32a | comment |
Scully Syndrome: In order to quell his growing anxiety and paranoia, John comes up with several increasingly bizarre and unlikely situations and factors to explain the strange things happening. This only drives his psychosis further and makes him an even more unreliable narrator than he already was. | |
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Wham Line | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: The last few lines of the story: | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_4f3c14ca | comment |
Go Mad from the Isolation: John's already rapidly deteriorating sanity certainly isn't helped by the fact that he never leaves his apartment and hasn't seen anyone in weeks. | |
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| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_54e3f941 | type |
Hikikomori | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_54e3f941 | comment |
Hikikomori: If John is to be believed, he hasn't left his apartment in weeks and hasn't had human interaction with anyone for days when the story starts. | |
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| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_58a90952 | type |
UnwillingRoboticization | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_58a90952 | comment |
Unwilling Roboticization: John thinks an entity has taken over the world and turned humanity into mindless cyborgs that do their bidding. The last few paragraphs are told from the perspective of a cyborgified doctor who unwillingly performs tests on John. | |
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| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_62434fe2 | type |
Sanity Slippage | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: John is convinced an entity has take over the world outside, but can't be sure. He begins to wonder if he's gone insane and his delusions are the result of severe psychological problems. | |
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| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_7a82c3d2 | type |
All Love Is Unrequited | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_7a82c3d2 | comment |
All Love Is Unrequited: The last few paragraphs strongly imply that John has deep feelings for Amy, since he thinks her telling him she loves him is simply him being told what he wants to hear. | |
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| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_8e3b5b4d | type |
Minimalist Cast | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_8e3b5b4d | comment |
Minimalist Cast: If you don't count the unseen doctors that take John away or the small interactions with various people over the internet, there's only three characters in the entire narrative, and one of them doesn't even show up until three paragraphs before the story ends. | |
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Scrapbook Story | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_90c54800 | comment |
Scrapbook Story: All but that last few paragraphs are told through a journal John is keeping. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: In this case John thinks an entity has taken over the world and is controlling humanity to do its bidding. | |
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Spot the Imposter | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_9c6da41b | comment |
Spot the Imposter: John asks Amy a question about how they met while she's standing outside his apartment to test if it's actually her. It is, but it's not her. | |
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Eye Scream | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: John stabs his eyes out with a pencil when the doctors come to take him away. | |
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Cruel Twist Ending | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_a4cd4fc6 | comment |
Cruel Twist Ending: John was completely right about the invasion. Unable to be possessed due to the fact that he stabbed his own eyes out, doctors taken over by the entity him away and keep him in a holding cell for the foreseeable future, trying to convince him that there is no invasion. Meanwhile, he continues to hold out false hope that Amy is still herself and will come and help him. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: The stories ending implies that, with the exception of John, this is the fate of the entire human race. | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The whole of the story is this. For the most part, it seems like it's just John going insane, and the ending seems to suggest he most likely is... until the final paragraph. Although even that's subject to interpretation. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_cdfe12c3 | comment |
Nothing Is Scarier: Most of the events in the story that terrorize John aren't overtly strange, but unusual enough (such as the half-finished email and his missing neighbors) to make him (and the reader) suspicious. | |
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The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_e0c470a1 | comment |
The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: One interpretation suggests that at the Cruel Twist Ending is actually a result of the reader contracting the same psychosis that John has. | |
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Switching P.O.V. | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_e3109dae | comment |
Switching P.O.V.: The whole story is told in first person except for the last three paragraphs, when it abruptly switches to third. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_f627b434 | comment |
Platonic Life-Partners: John and Amy, a friend of his who seems to be the only person he interacts with frequently. | |
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Conveniently Interrupted Document | |
| Psychosis (Matt Dymerski) / int_f65c014c | comment |
Conveniently Interrupted Document: The email John receives from his friend contains a fragment of a sentence, which in context would seem harmless but by itself seems cryptic and sinister. | |
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