What if you opened your eyes and the world around you had shifted… your lungs fill with air to breathe, but is it clean? The water sparkles, but can you drink it? This fictional work of SimLit explores a post-apocalyptic environment through the Murkland Starter Challenge, a Sims 4 challenge created by Brennachan.

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Follow the chapters of “Through a Glass Murkly.”

Mrtasana
Yoga makes me feel better, but it doesn’t stop the heat. I practice in the shade of the mesquites. Something feels not quite right. The swamp smells of sulfur and methane. Do odors cast shadows? Screams interrupt my practice. A man at the edge of the swamp is in flames “Drop!” I yell. “Roll in…