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Zak is twenty-two, stuck in Southend-on-Sea, and working the night shift at a dying arcade called Afterglow Arcades. It's temporary. Just until he finishes his electrician course.

It's a drizzly Tuesday in April. 1:00 AM. The last customers have gone home. The fog has rolled in so thick he can't see the pier. He locks the doors and kills time with a quick game of Street Fighter II.

That's when his head starts hurting. A dull pressure behind his left eye.
Then he notices something in the corner of his eye. Not a shape. A lack of shape. A dead pixel in reality, standing between the cabinets.

He turns his head. It's gone. He looks forward. It's there.
It moves when he blinks. It flickers with the neon lights.…