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don’t say Barclay’s name out loud, as if speaking the words could somehow make them more likely to come true.

Deirdre adds, “They sent out a search team, but it’s like he disappeared.”

Chills move over my arms and down my neck. These days, disappeared has a new meaning to me—for several reasons. First, because we have so many people just dropping off the face of the earth. But also because I’ve seen people vanish right in front of me.

I’ve seen black holes that open out of nothingness, circular portals to other worlds, seven feet or taller, like some kind of big vertical pool of tar. I’ve felt the temperature drop as the air around me suddenly took on a different quality and smell—wet, never-ending, open. I’ve had to watch people get swallowed up by portals and leave this earth.

And it’s not the first time I’ve wondered if the disappearances in my world and the portals are somehow connected.

People disappearing into thin air shouldn’t be this common.