The Queen in Yellow

By Mike DeFrench

There's this old text-based adventure game from the 80s. It's supposed to be cursed. Anyone who ever plays it ends up dying.
But what happens if you just watch it? What happens if someone live-streams it to thousands of their subscribers?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike DeFrench
• Release date: Oct 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215609019

Mike DeFrench

Mike DeFrench is a horror, fantasy, and science fiction writer from Indianapolis, Indiana. You can follow him on social media @defrenchwriter. Or go to defrenchwriter.com. To read the stories as they come out, and to stay up to date on any news, subscribe at defrenchwriter.substack.com

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The Queen in Yellow

Mike DeFrench

Published by Mike DeFrench, 2022.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

THE QUEEN IN YELLOW

First edition. October 25, 2022.

Copyright © 2022 Mike DeFrench.

ISBN: 979-8215609019

Written by Mike DeFrench.

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Also By Mike DeFrench

The Queen in Yellow | or | (TIFU by accidentally putting a deadly curse on fifty-thousand-ish of my Twitch subscribers and now we are all probably going to die a horrid death) | by Mike DeFrench

Further Reading: Amphetamine Daydreams: Volume One

Also By Mike DeFrench

About the Author

The Queen in Yellow

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(TIFU by accidentally putting a deadly curse on fifty-thousand-ish of my Twitch subscribers and now we are all probably going to die a horrid death)

by Mike DeFrench

u/cursedthrowaway227 (3:15AM 8/11/2021):

Today I fucked up by accidentally putting a deadly curse on fifty-thousand(ish) of my Twitch subscribers and now we are all probably going to die a horrid death.

TL;DR: I bought this old video game from a collector’s estate sale. He’d warned of a curse but most people thought it was a joke. So I played the game anyway, streaming live to about 20k viewers (50k total views before I took the video of the stream down). And now I’m sure the curse is real. I’m about 99% sure I will be dying soon, maybe even before I can finish and post this. And I’m also about 96.5% I also cursed the ~50k viewers and that they are all going to die too.

MY NAME IS (UPDATE: took this out because too many of your are trying to find archives of the stream—seriously. don’t.) I’m sitting in my room right now with every light on. I’ve been sitting at my desk for the last ten or so hours, just going back over everything, trying to convince myself that things will be fine. But I’m so paranoid that I moved my bed, my nightstand, and my dresser in front of my door. And so scared to go out there that I’ve been pissing in empty Monster cans—too afraid to undo the barricade and go to the bathroom. A thing I now regret as my room is starting to stink like piss. Will probably pour them out of the window soon.

Fuck—I’m rambling. I’m scared as shit, but also I’ve more or less accepted things. It’s more than anticipation of what is coming that is making things so terrible. Sorry, typing this is the only thing keeping me sane. And I’ve tried to start this like fifty different times and can’t find the words, so I’m just sort of stream-of-consciousness writing it out.

My heart is beating so hard that I can feel it in my ears. My tongue tastes like the stale coffee and Monsters I’ve been