This is a mixture of proper (I hope) grammar and horrific 'TXT TLK'.
Bewarned...as the following is not for the faint of heart...
Completely fiction, thank God!
An excerpt from Sally Lawling's journal
By Fatalis Unus
January 8
The computer.
A daily asset to our very lives.
It's my brother's best buddy. A very inatimate one, mind you.
He was once a very active little boy, once.
Once upon a time in a glorious kingdom of knights in shining armor and swooning ladies in silk corsets.
Look at him! A sight to behold!
Corn chip wrappers and bottles of dip strewn around in a range of two meters away from the desk and the Mac.
His stomach, a bulging bean bag. His health has turned around and smacked him a good one. Pasty complexion, yellow teeth...he doesn't even bother to get up off his fat buttocks anymore - not even for a visit to the toilet.
I hate the holidays. A full two month time at home. A full two months my little brother spends in chatroom and forum sites.
I could peer from behind his shoulder, what things he wrote...terrible...terrible things.
hae babi wat u dng?
nt mch dan i mssd u
My brother's name isn't Dan. It's Sean.
His display picture, a hunk of a man taken from Google. He was on a dating site.
nm wbu?
stfu fat a** go lse sme w8 btch
My brother was also being bullied by his friends. Sean was never really a skinny boy.
January 11
I was on the computer today. It was odd. My brother wasn't in his chair in front of the Mac.
The computer was on and i clicked over to one of his chatroom pages.
A conversation was left online.
It begun quite normally:
hae hae matt wht u dng
nm dan, nm
so uh r u stil cmng
I froze, coming?
It continued, to my horror.
yeh im owt sde
Dear Lord...outside?
wher r u m8? i cnt c u
wher r u
At your door.
There was nothing written after.
June 25
My brother's been missing for months and days. My parents are a wreck, though they hold hope in their sad eyes.
July 26
We've given my brother up for good. He's gone. Vanished, without a damn mother------- trace!
July 30
I'm trying to locate 'Sexi memba lol' on that God forsaken site.
Nothing.
My IM page suddenly came up with this message:
im gon getchu
I laughed. What a iliterate.
