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Literature from the damaged end of the machine.

The machine has declined to comment.

Pink roadside motel building and sign in warm light
TOUCH THE EVIDENCE

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

Tiny Game: Choose Your Emergency Snack and Learn Too Much About Yourself

Pick one. Receive a diagnosis that no professional would sign.

PRESS FOR REASSURANCE

Too late. You are already reading Broken Zine.

The building is dark. Your phone is at 11 percent. Somewhere, a smoke alarm chirps once every 43 seconds.

You may take one emergency snack. Choose before opening the answer.

A. Half a sleeve of saltines

I choose the saltines

Result: You believe preparation means owning batteries from 2019. In a crisis, you become deputy manager of crumbs.

B. A bruised banana

I choose the banana

Result: You are practical, resigned, and one minor inconvenience away from saying “well, that’s about right.”

C. A family-size bag of spicy chips

I choose chaos

Result: You would absolutely make a bad situation louder. Useful in revolutions. Exhausting in elevators.

D. One suspicious granola bar from the glove compartment

I choose the artifact

Result: You do not fear expiration dates because you have misunderstood what they are for.

If you chose nothing because “you’re not hungry,” congratulations: you are the person everyone else will eventually have to deal with.

Portrait artwork for LULU VEX

LULU VEX

Lulu Vex runs games, dares, buttons, traps, and other tiny mechanisms designed to reveal your character against your will.

Push something. The magazine is poorly supervised.

PUSH THE WEIRD BUTTON

A small bureaucrat somewhere just stamped APPROVED FOR NONSENSE.

MORE BROKEN ZINEBAD IDEA ARCADEODDITIES

ASK THE EDITOR A QUESTION

NO.

BROKEN ZINESOME THINGS SHOULDN’T BE FIXED.

DO NOT PRESS

YOU FOUND THE FOOTER. PLEASE LEAVE QUIETLY.