Have you ever wished that you could escape your own reality? To be able to escape to a realistic simulation, a perfect world?
Throughout her childhood, Mia Baker has often wished to be someone else. To be rich. To be beautiful. To have a mother.
One day though, her wish is granted. Her father, an eccentric computer technician, has invented a wonderful, realistic new game, Glass Game, or the "glass". Here, you can create, explore, build. You can be anyone, do anything- provided you pay.
But there's a darker side to the glass. Addiction. Her father's new toxic nature. Nothing is really anymore. It's all on the glass. The world has changed forever. Is money and success really worth it, when you're living in a game?
And of course, there are the glitches. She didn't notice them at first, but now they are everywhere. It's not just slow loading, or a pixelated nature, too- the glitches are scarily real. Shaky, scary, falls that make her feel sick. And now, glitches are occurring in her OWN REALITY.
Which begs the question...what if she's in a simulation herself?
*TRIGGER WARNING: DEALS WITH DEPRESSION, SELF HARM AND SUICIDE*
Amber is sixteen years old and to sugarcoat it... She hasn't had the best upbringing.
She would love a different life, one where she can see her mother again and not be stuck with her abusive father. A life where she doesn't get taunted and hit and torn apart by everyone who she has ever seen. But she would never swap, she doesn't want anyone to endure the pain she's gone through.
So instead, she tries to get rid of it... Again.
But much to her disbelief, she is saved by the people she would least expect. She learns secrets about them that no one else knows. She feels included. Cared for. And dare I say it... She felt loved.
For once in her life, she felt truly happy to be alive.
But just when Amber felt safe, her life was flipped upside down and her past came back to haunt her just when she least expected it...
(Sorry, I suck at descriptions, don't let it put you off)
Ranking:
#64 in Awareness
#15 in Mental Health Awareness
#73 in saddness