
Hopelessness
On Quisicosas since 12 November 2025
Featured in the newsletter of
12 November 2025 (on Substack)
What it is about
I can promise love fails. Bodies fail. Life disintegrates far faster than I can learn to appreciate it. I fail. In my time I have wasted almost everything. Hopelessness is gamebook about stealth, resolve, and violence. I will lead myself to my ultimate end. To have a chance at surviving, I must navigate mazes while pursued by creatures whose gruesome details I refuse to look at. I will make missteps. I will improvise diversions to aid my escape. I will explore these places and manage time and directions to keep my bearings, rummage for tools and clues, listen for nearby threats, and escape what I pray is just a long, long, dark night. I know it isn't. Stay up, though. I need it. All of it. All the light there is.