CARRIER WAVE

Humanity listened to the night sky. What we heard shattered the world. Listen. Just once. That's it. As soon as you hear it, it has you. And once it has you, it's over. You may think you're in control. You're not. You want one more listen. You want to look at that strange spot in the sky. The one that's been slowly growing. The one that didn't make sense until you listened. You want to listen again, and you will do whatever it takes to make everyone else listen. By any means necessary. Even if it kills you. Just one more listen. One more. Listen.

Robert Brockway is the author of the post-apocalyptic horror epic Carrier Wave, the cyberpunk novel Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity, the comedic non-fiction essay collection Everything is Going to Kill Everybody, and The Vicious Circuit, a punk rock urban fantasy series from Tor Books. He is the former senior editor and columnist of Cracked.com.