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microcitied adj. Having drunk enough to wake in a small, densely populated world where every surface has a civic function. Clarion woke microcitied, assigning the bedside table, glass and phone their morning municipal duties. microcitomaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to spend the morning in a small, self-contained pocket of discomfort. microcivilizationed adj. Having drunk more than a small society can reasonably absorb, and now governing its ruins from bed. microcladed adj. You have drunk enough to sort the morning’s people into tiny family groups, chiefly according to who brought water. Jo-anna grew microcladed at breakfast, placing the helpful and unhelpful into separate branches. microclamped adj. You are drunk and holding one small opinion so tightly that the morning cannot prise it loose. Krislin woke microclamped around the belief that toast should be eaten standing up. microclassificationed adj. Of a drinker: sorting the morning into very small categories, including coffees that are helping and coffees that are not. Simcha became microclassificationed, labelling every breakfast item according to its restorative prospects. microcleavaged adj. Of a drinker who has divided the morning into increasingly thin layers, none of which contains a workable plan. microclimated adj. Describing a drinker who has created a private weather system beneath the duvet, distinct from the household outside. Sary remained microclimated in bed, while the flat beyond experienced ordinary and rather demanding weather. microclimaticsed adj. A drinker who studies the small weather around a glass of water, a pillow and an uncovered shoulder. microclimatologied adj. The state of being drunk and treating each corner of the house as a separate climatic event. Mykael woke microclimatologied, moving between the sofa and kitchen according to local conditions. microclimatologisted adj. A drinker so far gone that the room’s smallest changes in temperature become a morning research programme. Dequandra grew microclimatologisted, taking the radiator’s behaviour personally before breakfast. microclimaxed adj. The condition of a drinker who reaches a very small conclusion about the evening and considers it final. microclined adj. The drunkenness of one who has become hard, crystalline and inclined to remain exactly where the hangover found them. Elland woke microclined, angled towards the wall and unwilling to alter the arrangement. microclinicked adj. Reduced by drink to a very small medical facility, receiving water, quiet and intermittent professional advice from a friend. Allura was microclinicked on the sofa, with a glass of water serving as the entire treatment plan. microclipped adj. Softened by drink into a tiny fastening that no longer holds the night’s events together. Benjamin-james was microclipped by breakfast, fastened to the morning by one unreliable recollection. microcloned adj. Sharpened by drink into a small duplicate of yourself, grown from whatever part of last night survived. Rikke woke microcloned, a reduced copy of yesterday with the same opinions and fewer functions.