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Courtesy of Deepseek 3.1:That reads like modern-day Lovecraftian horror.
The Idol of Asphalt
I had fled the phosphor-scrawled dread of the screen, my mind frayed by ceaseless whispers from the aether-web. I feared the bounds of waking sanity dissolving, replaced by phantoms of displacement, of alien tides surging into familiar lands—visions of a world remade by shadow, though my own province remained, as yet, untouched.
Taking refuge in the mundane, I trod upon the honest earth, feeling the sun’s warm benediction upon my skin. The grass whispered forgotten truths. No sign of the Unseen Tide. All seemed… ordinary.
Then I came upon the filling station—a sunken temple of black asphalt, lowered beneath the road, girded by a steep and verdant slope. A single ramp gave access.
And there It stood.
A carriage, perched at an impossible angle upon the grassy incline, as though it had descended not by ramp, but by some blasphemous curvature of space. No mortal driver, however unskilled, could have conceived such an approach. It defied geometry. Defied reason.
My first thought was the old fear—the invasive gesture, the mark of the Outsider. I brushed it aside. You are grounding yourself, I thought. This is the real. Do not summon spectres where there are none.
I drew nearer.
And then I saw the Driver.
He stood beside the wretched vehicle, speaking into a small black mirror—a relic of the very net-world I had fled. His voice was a frantic, sibilant cadence, words tumbling in rhythms not meant for human throats. His skin was the colour of ancient terra-cotta, his eyes wide with a terror that did not seem to belong to this dimension.
He was Indian.
And in that moment, I knew.
This was no happenstance. It was an emergence. The Driver was no mere man. He was a herald. A manifestation of that ceaseless, swelling tide from beyond the map, from outside the geometry of our understanding.
I stood frozen, the sun now cold upon my neck. The world did not break—it bent. And I understood, with a clarity that near unseated my mind, that I was not detoxing from the internet.
I was waking up to what had already arrived.


