Free Interactive Fiction "9:05" Knows All About Being Late to Work

Feeling like reading? Feel like a free game you don't have to download?

Well, maybe you should check out the interactive fiction titled 9:05. Coming across this earlier on Rock, Paper, Shotgun, 9:05 has an interesting premise: you're late for work. You have to do daily morning activities and get out the door before you're so late you face being canned.

So you need to take a shower, change your clothes, drive to work... the usual. It's a short tale, but an impacting one indeed. In fact, I have just played through the title for the first time, and let me tell you... I am confused. Very confused. In a good way. The first ending I've come across is so shocking that I'm dumbfounded.

If I were to summarize this game in a short poem:

"Being late to work has never been so frightening
Showering has now become a tribulation
Leaving for work has never been this heart-pounding
Get there,
Sigh with relief.
What the hell just happened?"

If you want to know what I'm talking about, you'd have to play the game yourself by accessing this here link.