For fans of The Mist, Dark Matter, and The Last of Us. Michael Hart is a man hollowed out by grief. Two years after losing his wife, Sarah, he survives on the rigid armor of routine-same tea, same bus stop, same silence. But during a high‑voltage repair at a substation, the routine breaks. 33,000 volts surge through him, and instead of dying, Michael slips. He wakes up in a world that has developed seams. He can see the invisible machinery of death: ultraviolet filaments drifting through hospital corridors, spectral anomalies stalking the edges of reality. As a predatory "Anomaly" begins to hunt him through the cracks in the world, Michael faces an impossible choice: Allow the cycle to collapse, or become the very thing that manages the end of all things. Read on Inkitt Read on Royal Road