Fake News: Keeping Up Appearances

Title: Keeping Up Appearances (aka The LSD Story)
Rating: PG-13
Series: TDS/TCR
Warnings: Drug usage, extreme strangeness.
( Two disclaimers, with love )

Summary: After an accidental LSD trip gives Stephen unexpected insight into how broken his mind is, he tries in vain to pick up the pieces. Which Stephen am I?

(The interspersed quotations are from Sylvia Fraser's In My Father's House. The author is a Canadian female incest survivor who grew up in the '50s, while "Stephen" is none of these things; still, the psychological tenor is the one I want.)

We are who we pretend to be; so we must be very careful who we pretend to be.
--Kurt Vonnegut

( For several years she won the trophies and garnered the votes, but she had an inherent flaw. She did not react to circumstances out of real emotion. She was programmed like a computer and, like a computer, she played to rule. )