The Void
The Edge -It turns out we moved in next to a portal. Of course, we didn’t know that at the time, or else I imagine rent would have been a lot cheaper. These things started occurring everywhere over the last couple of years. The first one was in Florida, in some poor guy’s backyard. By the time we got ours last month, people weren’t really as scared of them anymore. They don’t really do anything unless you wander into one, or one happens beneath you without warning. When ours appeared, most of our community moved away, and the Lowes adjacent to the thing shut down. White tents popped up overnight and activity could be heard at all hours over the next few days, but they predictably found nothing and soon moved on. People were encouraged not to go near the thing, but nobody wanted to anyway. Despite not being particularly harmful from a distance, they still evoked a sense of unease and a dread of the unknown. Over the following weeks, more people migrated away from the thing until, ...