“It is how it has always been.”
Nothing would ever change. Just like another normal day; the red sun would greet him, his cat would shriek in his face, the old lady across the street would smile at him and the unusual sweet stench of burning flesh would linger around in the air.
Today as well would be normal, right?
dreamcore/traumacore
What Wake Up does so effectively is weaponize format. The story breaks down as the character does. Names flicker into symbols. Repeated lines echo like a broken record. Whole paragraphs dissolve into unreadable noise. Well done.