Them
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Last published Sat, Mar 28, 2026
On July 14th, at 3:55 PM, they arrived.
No one knows what They are, where They came from, or what They want. Suspended silently above cities, mountains, and monuments, the monoliths do nothing-except erase anything that comes too close. Missiles vanish. Planes disappear. Even the air thins around Them.
As days pass, humanity unravels. Governments collapse. Worship rises. People begin to walk toward Them, entranced by an unseen pull-disappearing the moment they touch the unknowable.
In the ruins of civilization, only the voice of one narrator remains. But whose voice is it, truly?
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