Kevin Quinn (@kevq.bsky.social)

Kevin Quinn (@kevq100): "Another WIP snippet from the forthcoming second volume in the 5 Cosmic Fragments series: Daiv felt a huge wave of relief when he made it out of the building and then onto the Employee Shuttle. Although a powerful feeling, it didn’t last; the relief he felt paled into insignif…" Another WIP snippet from the forthcoming second volume in the 5 Cosmic Fragments series: Daiv felt a huge wave of relief when he made it out of the building and then onto the Employee Shuttle. Although a powerful feeling, it didn’t last; the relief he felt paled into insignificance when confronted by the nauseous delirium he felt by the time he got home. He had a headache so bad he felt that he must be dying, and images, scenes and visions swirled uncontrollably in a vortex around his brain, to the extent that he couldn’t follow their meaning or focus on any one of them. His head filled with a painful, high-pitched keening sound, like there were a billion mourners crying out around the graves of the victims of an unimaginable atrocity. Daiv was in a bewildered state of total panic and cognitive collapse. He was overwhelmed by grief, fear, futility, madness, horror, guilt and anxiety. He heard a thunderous beating and clamouring at the door of his apartment, or was it at the walls, the ceiling … the floor? “Surely they must break through at any time,” he heard his inner voice say, oddly calm, whilst at the same time he heard himself screaming. No-one came. Daiv Martel collapsed on the floor of his apartment. https://substack.com/@kevq100/note/c-174548396?r=qf8k4