A click, felt more than heard, as everything became unlatched. Proton from neutron from electron. But it was the thrum inside our skulls, unfathomably low, that first warned us of the undoing that lay ahead. A warning that bled down our necks from our ears.
The visions were fast, brilliant and horrifying. Fast, because they lasted nanoseconds, but brilliant, because they scarred themselves onto our minds. Horrifying, because they showed us the absolute truth of the world.
For some, the sighing call to violence came quick. Abusing themselves and others in ways no natural consciousness could conceive. But the biological torture could only do so much. A distraction from greater chaos.
The negative vision came last. A world inverted. Sucking winds and retreating seas. An orange sky. A scarlet field. A black sun.
Paddy Dobson
15th September 2020