So I asked a bad question at a Giant Bomb panel. I decided to go the Adam Orth route and channel my feelings into an interactive thing.
Despite the text's unremitting bleakness (don't worry, I'm fine right now), I view this as a positive experience. I've never used Twine or CSS before, and it's the closest I've come to actual programming. I'd definitely be interested to try something else with it, something more text adventurey. Maybe a Western?
Anyway, here it is.
http://bit.ly/1AihuXWEDIT 2: I have solved the music problem. The above link should work fine.