My favorite online serial novel about the end of the world has sprouted another chapter! In a welcome surprise I didn’t have to wait three months for the next chapter!

A small taste.

If you take a glass tube and fill it with mercury, then turn this vial over and let the mercury exit into a small bowl (and this is the tricky part) while holding it so that the mercury in the bowl keeps the mercury in the vial from completely flowing out, you will have created a mercury vacuum. This tiny pocket of empty space at the top of the vial is just that, empty. Really empty, apart from a couple errant mercury atoms, not much else is in there. Perfect, clean, vacuum.

Nature abhors a vacuum. The entire weight of the atmosphere will try to crush that tiny empty space out of existence. The same weight we all suffer under every day without noticing. It’s not until that entire atmosphere gets moving around real fast that you perk your ears up and notice. Funny how the things you learn in science class come back to you in the strangest of times. Ophelia didn’t just abhor a vacuum; she didn’t reserve her rage for something so mundane. Oh no, she was far less picky, she wanted to destroy…everything.

If you have no idea what I am talking about, start here, otherwise check it out, things are getting good, if not a bit gory (not for the little-uns)