by Ryan Notch
He was lost in the dark, but really it was a victory. Because for the first time in a long time, he was alone in the dark.
Epilogue
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Father Mason stood in the alcove under the parish going over the checklist for the machine, as Shaw had taught him. He had a younger priest with him, one fresh from seminary who was anxious to use the power of computers to spread the word of God in new ways. A man who was better at computers than Mason knew he ever would be, though not half as good as Shaw. This man would be able to learn the ways of the machine and help keep it, as Father Mason now saw as their holy duty.
The younger priest came from another world and another age than he had, and hadn’t at first believed Father Mason’s stories of the demon that now surely waited just beyond the Earth. Waiting with a patience born of centuries in the blackness. The man hadn’t believed until the pictures had come out in the papers, pictures of the things found in the remains of the Brownstone explosion. Rumors of a skeleton the size and shape of a building. Until stories began to leak of the events of the Saint Severinus asylum, a place the younger priest himself had sometimes volunteered.
So the young priest now listened attentively as Father Mason explained to him what he understood of what Shaw had explained to him. Showed him the carefully prepared documentation that Shaw had left for those who would follow.
“You tell me that the whole world is now a wheel of secretly flowing information, with this machine as the hub,” said the young priest. “But there’s one thing I don’t understand. You said that this program uses the same type of math, the same language, as the recording the radio telescope made of the demon. Just different words. But Father, what words does it say?”
Father Mason repeated with reverence the words that Shaw had said when he had asked the same question.
“It prays.”
The End
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About the author:
Ryan Notch lives in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town evacuated by the Federal government due to a coal mine fire burning beneath it since 1962. The only town in America ever to have its zip code revoked. During the day he wanders the empty streets and houses as if in a dream, looking for something he lost but can't remember where or what it was. At night he writes his horror stories by lying down next to a burning fissure along main street and placing his ear to the ground, transcribing what he hears coming up from below.
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