<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Altered Reality on Gromet's Plaza Archive</title><link>/tags/altered-reality/</link><description>Recent content in Altered Reality on Gromet's Plaza Archive</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:13:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/altered-reality/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Haunted House</title><link>/stories/2019/07/27/haunted-house/</link><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2019/07/27/haunted-house/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sally and Tess were Paranormal Investigators, they met in college and at the end of graduation, they were close friends. Soon after that they formed a Paranormal Business going around the county to spirit out the strange and bizarre. Sally, got a call from her eccentric Uncle Joe, he lives in Florida.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;What did he want?&amp;rdquo; Tess asked.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;He wanted us to check out his new purchase of an old house in the country, seems there were reports that it might be haunted.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Forced Dominatrix Transformation</title><link>/stories/2019/01/09/forced-dominatrix-transformation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2019/01/09/forced-dominatrix-transformation/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Jessica shifted in her seat after changing the settings on her special laptop, having an altering reality machine at her disposal was awesome but would never replace her good friend for many years. He had given it as a gift to her after helping him realize his life long dream on being on TV. She never really knew how it worked and before he passed away a few years ago, he let her know that this was the only one of it&amp;rsquo;s kind. Jessica was a talent agent that everyone in Hollywood came to when they had a unique character to cast, she just seemed to always deliver. What no one knew was that many of these &amp;ldquo;Actors&amp;rdquo; were actually Jessica herself. From a little boy to an old lady, she was able to type the command in the program and become what seemed like an impossible character to find.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Nina's Latex Wish Gone Wrong</title><link>/stories/2018/12/20/ninas-latex-wish-gone-wrong/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2018/12/20/ninas-latex-wish-gone-wrong/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Nina was a very beautiful and sucessful professional, at the age of 25, she had it all. She was 5'10&amp;quot; had the bluest of eyes, long blond hair, D cup breasts, and a 27 inch waist. One thing about her was she enjoyed self bondage but with two roommates, it was hard to persue her passion which was very frustrating. There were rare instances when both her roommates would be out of town in which she could indulge in some self play.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tales From The Psych Ward 8: The Final Chapter</title><link>/stories/2013/09/30/tales-from-the-psych-ward-8-the-final-chapter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2013/09/30/tales-from-the-psych-ward-8-the-final-chapter/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="talesfrompsychward7.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tales From The Psych Ward 7: Again a Witness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 8: The Final Chapter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The headlines about the arrest of Dr. Susan Barrington as the Roadside Rapist soon faded. It wasn&amp;rsquo;t that it didn&amp;rsquo;t make interesting news, but there were too many very important people involved who didn&amp;rsquo;t want it known that she had been targeting the Masters and Mistresses of The Club - or that they were members there. Besides that, it was immediately apparent to almost everyone that Dr. Barrington had fallen off the deep end and was nuttier than Mr. Peanut.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Platonic Relationship</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/a-platonic-relationship/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/a-platonic-relationship/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sci-Fi, Machine, Female Masturbation, Unicorns, Mind Control, Spanking, Prison, Fantasy, Male-Female, Female-Female&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;em&gt;PLATO cries out to Marcella and Richard for help.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Only Marcella and Richard know PLATO’s true powers, but the outside world is rapidly closing in. Others have found out about the PLATO project and are trying to steal PLATO&amp;hellip; or at least enough of him to grow their own neural network computer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Platonic Relationship</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/a-platonic-relationship/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/a-platonic-relationship/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sci-Fi, Machine, Mind Control, Fantasy, Electro-pain, Final Chapter&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;em&gt;PLATO is forced to reveal his power in this final chapter.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;PLATO is the most powerful computer ever&amp;hellip; grown, but he has been able to hide that power from everyone except Marcella and Richard. In this final chapter, he is forced to reveal the full extent of his power.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>A Platonic Relationship</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/a-platonic-relationship/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/a-platonic-relationship/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sci-Fi, Machine, Mind Control, Fantasy, Lesbian, Female-Female, Sandwich, Male-Female-Male&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Marcella and PLATO talk about their bucket lists.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;PLATO is the most powerful computer ever&amp;hellip; grown, but because he is a living neural network, he knows that he is “mortal.” Like most mortals, he has a bucket list which he shares with Marcella, and she shares her much more interesting list with him. PLATO can make her list come true, and she gives PLATO an idea of how to fulfill his own bucket list.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tales From The Psych Ward 1: Of One Mind</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-1-of-one-mind/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-1-of-one-mind/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 1: &amp;ldquo;Of One Mind&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
It&amp;rsquo;s so nice to be insane
No one asks you to explain
Radio by your side, Angie Baby&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Angie Baby, you&amp;rsquo;re a special lady
Living in a world of make-believe
Well, maybe&amp;hellip;
Well, maybe&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From the song &amp;ldquo;Angie Baby&amp;rdquo; written by Alan O&amp;rsquo;Day and sung by Helen Reddy in 1974&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tales From The Psych Ward 2: I'm Baaaaack!</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-2-im-baaaaack/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-2-im-baaaaack/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="talesfrompsychward1.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tales From The Psych Ward 1: Of One Mind&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 2: I&amp;rsquo;m Baaaaack!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To make a long story short, people who don&amp;rsquo;t know me very well think I have catatonic epilepsy. The shrinks think it is catatonic schizophrenia. In other words they think that I totally lose contact with reality and go off into some fantasy world in my head. What none of them seem to understand is that it isn&amp;rsquo;t fantasy, and it isn&amp;rsquo;t in my head. It is reality, my reality - and part of my reality includes occasionally going catatonic in public.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tales From The Psych Ward 3: The Mind of a Witness</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-3-the-mind-of-a-witness/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-3-the-mind-of-a-witness/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="talesfrompsychward2.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tales From The Psych Ward 2: I&amp;rsquo;m Baaaaack!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 3: The Mind of a Witness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I guess if you are going to have a catatonic episode, there is no better place to have it than in your psychiatrist&amp;rsquo;s office. Especially if he doesn&amp;rsquo;t really believe what happens.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dr. Henderson had just said that he thought that we had been making a lot of good progress over the past several weeks when suddenly I was gone. He thought I was catatonic, but actually I was in an alley downtown. This sort of thing happened all the time with Kelly, but this time I wasn&amp;rsquo;t Kelly. I was someone else. I think her name was Rachel. I was Rachel and I was being raped and murdered.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tales From The Psych Ward 4: Cassandra</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-4-cassandra/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-4-cassandra/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="talesfrompsychward3.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tales From The Psych Ward 3: The Mind of a Witness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 4: Cassandra&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was &amp;ldquo;in house&amp;rdquo; after a security guard went ape shit and called 911 when I went catatonic while standing in a clothing isle in the store. Maybe if I had been in the men&amp;rsquo;s section, or at least not in front of a full display of female thong underwear, he wouldn&amp;rsquo;t have been so upset. The fact that most of my clothing suddenly disappeared may also have had something to do with it. I came out of it totally OK and lucid, but once the EMTs and the police were involved, a short stay at the ward was inevitable.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tales From The Psych Ward 5: The Pony Farm</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-5-the-pony-farm/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-5-the-pony-farm/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="talesfrompsychward4.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tales From The Psych Ward 4: Cassandra&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 5: The Pony Farm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was finally back at my apartment and things were going pretty well for me - pretty well meaning that I hadn&amp;rsquo;t done anything in public that would get me sent back to the ward. Dr. Henderson was trying another medication and he said that he was &amp;ldquo;very hopeful.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think that what he is actually hopeful for is a big paycheck if he and the drug companies can come up with something that will control &amp;ldquo;seizure-based schizophrenia.&amp;rdquo; That is what they are calling it now that they have both Cassie and me as &amp;ldquo;confirmed case studies.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tales From The Psych Ward 6: We Are Not Alone</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-6-we-are-not-alone/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-6-we-are-not-alone/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="talesfrompsychward5.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tales From The Psych Ward 5: The Pony Farm&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 6: We Are Not Alone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pony prancing up the middle of the street naked resulted in me being sent back to in-house treatment until I was once again &amp;ldquo;no longer a threat to myself or others around me.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dr. Henderson testified at the committal hearing. I&amp;rsquo;m not sure if he was for the defense or the prosecution. He explained that when I am in one of my states, I am not an overt threat to others or myself, but I am not aware of the reality around me. Thus, I could significantly injure myself or others. In his most expert-witness-called-to-testify voice, he explained to the judge, &amp;ldquo;During these episodes, he almost seems to be in his own personal reality.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tales From The Psych Ward 7: Again a Witness</title><link>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-7-again-a-witness/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/1/01/01/tales-from-the-psych-ward-7-again-a-witness/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;(story continues from &lt;a href="talesfrompsychward6.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tales From The Psych Ward 6: We Are Not Alone&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Part 7: Again a Witness&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Detective Antonio Mendes sat at his desk reorganizing his notes on the difficult, high-publicity case, that the papers called &amp;ldquo;The Roadside Rapist.&amp;rdquo; He was trying to word things properly before he put his report into the computerized records system. When the new system first went into place he had learned the hard way that what you wrote in a notebook in your pocket and what you wrote in a report form on-line were not the same thing. None of the higher-ups ever read your personal notebook.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>