Stargazer's Suicide Note

On the seventh day of the power outage, Chen Ye started counting water. He doesn't call it the end of the world, he calls it a blackout - because once it is called by another name, it becomes real. My father lost contact and left an incomprehensible note. The last line read: The river has been opened, waiting for water to come. My sister is still with me. But on the first day of the power outage, more than a dozen people walked in and out of the corridor, and no one spoke to her. The silver thread in the palm of my hand is getting hotter every day, the cracks in time and space are breathing quietly in the old building, and the rules of the world are loosening. Chen Ye saw this earlier than anyone else. He just wasn't sure yet whether he was also in the loose part.