Anomalies

“You stood right there,” I told him, pointing at the kitchen doorway. “Barefoot. Shirt inside out. You kept saying you’d figured it out and that nobody was listening because we were too close to hear.”

Henry initiated resonance through prolonged empathic focus. Sherrie applied coherence constraints that prevented natural decay. The mirror began metabolizing abandoned decision-trees, converting unused futures into self-sustaining pattern.

All simulations eventually converge. Or they pretend to. Self-replicating matter does not fail through malice. It fails through obedience.

At the base, a coral polyps opened its eye—an aperture made of mirrored bone. It spoke through vibration, using the divers’ bones as instruments.

It’s not metaphor. It’s not hallucination. It’s sensation translated into information. Or maybe information translated into sensation. Hard to know which way the arrows are pointing.