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Occupation | Writer |
Known for | Reddit creepypastas |
_9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9, sometimes abbreviated to 9M9H9E9 or MHE, is the screen name of an anonymous writer of creepypasta[1] speculative fiction on the social news website Reddit.
From 22 April to 17 July 2016, the writer posted a science fiction horror story in short installments to apparently random Reddit discussion threads.[1] The story, sometimes referred to by others as the Interface series, touches on such topics as "Vietnam, Elizabeth Bathory, the Treblinka concentration camp, humpback whales, the Manson Family and LSD", and particularly involves entities called "flesh interfaces".[1]
The story attracted media notice the day after its first parts were published.[2] The Guardian, reporting on the story, described it as "compelling" and "gradually more beautifully and boldly written from multiple narrative perspectives".[1] Vice mentioned the possibility of the whole thing being part of a viral marketing campaign for something yet unknown.[3] An impromptu fandom collects information about the story in a subreddit and wiki.[3]
The story features several loosely-interconnected narratives. Most individual narratives are linear, but the story jumps between them non-linearly.
Early parts of the story focus on two main narratives:
The later parts of the story deal with two more narratives:
It's hinted that Mother and Q are the same entity, and it's not clear if the rescue of Nick is part of a timeline in which Q is defeated.
There are also some small side narratives. One of them culminates with the narrator being assimilated to a flesh interface, one of them seems to document how humans got the ability to create the interfaces and one of them seems to be a metaphor for humans not being able to comprehend flesh interfaces and Q.
In a later deleted post, the writer described himself as a "30-something American male", and indicated a history of substance abuse.[3] However, this post also incorporated fictional elements of the story. A BBC article also reported that the author said he is "male, in his thirties, lives in the United States, works as a freelance translator, and was once a heavy user of LSD."[4] The author told Gizmodo that "I live in a home for men and work a little to make ends meet."[5] Both Vice and Gizmodo have speculated that Reddit user /u/Anatta-Phi, prolific conspiracy theorist and moderator of the "ShrugLifeSyndicate", a subreddit of similar themes including psychedelics, psychosis and synchronicity, is the writer of the story.[3][5]
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