TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

Nothing happened. That is exactly what it wants you to think.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

Place your phone in another room.

Not face-down on the table. Not in your pocket. Another room.

Set a timer for eleven minutes using something that is not your phone. This will be harder than expected.

Minute one: confidence.

Minute three: phantom vibration.

Minute five: sudden concern that everyone you love has chosen this exact moment to require you.

Minute eight: you hear the refrigerator.

Minute ten: you remember chairs have textures.

Minute eleven: retrieve phone.

There are no messages.

The experiment has succeeded and insulted you.

Lulu Vex runs experiments that should not require a waiver but somehow feel as if they should.

Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.

PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON

A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.