Arthur Pendelton was a man who believed in preparedness. Not the boy-scout kind with knot-tying and fire-starting, but the quiet, obsessive kind that filled his basement with thirty-year shelf-life chili and his garage with a machine that could, theoretically, survive the heat death of the sun.
Arthur had sold his wife’s vintage vinyl collection to afford it. She had left him three weeks prior, taking only a suitcase and the cat. He didn’t miss her. He missed the cat.
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The static outside began to twist into shapes. Vast, spiral geometries, like the inside of a nautilus shell built from broken glass. Arthur felt a pressure in his skull, as if something were trying to remember him into non-existence.
