(February 19, 2026)

PsalmLab finished their article with a great sigh of relief. It was their third one this week, and their brain was about to leak out of their ears with the amount of effort they’d put in.

Worth it if anyone read them. And they hoped someone did. They were important. Crucial, they might even say, if they wanted to survive what the world was about to become.

They stared out the window of their small apartment, at the bright blue sky, the warm summer sun... and the gaping black maw a few thousand kilometres from the sun that appeared to be all of a few feet away from the planet’s energy source.

PsalmLab had watched that void since it had appeared the other day. They’d noticed the tentacles poking out, as though testing the air, and knew it was only a matter of time before whatever lived beyond the void broke through.

The worst part? Only a handful of people had noticed the void. The news wasn’t talking about it. It wasn’t all over social media.

So PsalmLab wrote their articles and hoped someone would take heed.