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alstoninned adj. Of a drinker who has carried yesterday's bitter chemistry into today's first conversation. Niya was alstoninned, answering the kettle with the seriousness of a medical consultation. alstonited adj. Describing a drinker who has set hard overnight, combining heaviness with a mineral reluctance to move. Yuvin woke alstonited, fixed to the mattress until someone brought water. alstroemeriaed (/ˌælstɹiˈmiːɹɪ.əd/) adj. A drinker who wakes brightly coloured in theory, drooping in practice, and in need of water. Zykiria was alstroemeriaed by breakfast, decorative on the sofa and unable to face the window. alt fashioned adj. Softened by drink into clothing that has declined the mainstream entirely. Keshia went alt fashioned and wore a velvet cape to the corner shop. alt keyed adj. The state of being drunk and pressing the wrong combination of memories, messages, and household controls. Griff woke alt keyed, having opened the calculator instead of the curtains. alt lefted adj. Reduced by drink to a conspiratorial explanation for the headache, the missing shoe, and the empty glass. Aidenmatthew woke alt lefted and blamed the vanished toast on an organised domestic silence. alt righted adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every morning explanation takes a hard turn towards grievance. Alayja woke alt righted and blamed the weather for the missing charger. alt rocked adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing last night's guitar from this morning's pounding head. Kanetra woke alt rocked, convinced the radiator was still keeping time. alt texted adj. The condition of a drinker who must explain every visible object because the usual meaning has failed to render. Zila woke alt texted and described the mug, the spoon, and the alarming stain on her sleeve. alt-azimuthed adj. Drunk in a way that rotates between sofa and kitchen, horizontally and vertically, without arriving anywhere. Vickilynn went alt-azimuthed, surveying the sofa from every angle before sitting. alt-centered adj. Drunk beyond the point where centrist certainty can survive contact with an ordinary disagreement. Ceile became alt-centered and accused Bryony of radicalism for preferring the other taxi company. alt-countried adj. Having drunk enough to combine incompatible musical traditions and call the resulting noise authentic. alt-girled adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes with carefully alternative taste and no reliable account of getting home. Arloene was alt-girled, wearing yesterday's confidence and somebody else's oversized cardigan. alt-lefted adj. Softened by drink into a morning certainty that every ordinary explanation is authoritarian. Miguelantonio woke alt-lefted and denounced the bathroom mirror as institutionally misleading. alt-litted adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every message into a minor literary movement. Deliany was alt-litted and published three observations in the family group chat. alt-metalled adj. Drunk on the strength of heavy music with a less orthodox arrangement. Nikalus was alt-metalled and nodded gravely at the washing machine.