It arrives in the middle of your perfectly average Tuesday. Maybe it’s a text message from a number you deleted three years ago. Maybe it’s the sudden, heavy silence when you walk into your kitchen, where the air feels different—charged, like before a thunderstorm.

Because the.uninvited?

The chair hasn’t moved since. The.uninvited will always try the handle. That is its nature. It is the shadow in the peripheral, the strange noise in the attic, the email you were dreading.

The air popped. Like a pressure change in an airplane.