What Came out With Them

The tunnel was supposed to save them ten minutes.Instead, it stole three years.When Ethan Chen and his friends walk out the other end, his phone says November 12—three years and four days after they entered. Theirs show the same night. No one believes him.Then Mia forgets where she lives.Then Jordan forgets his mother's name.Then Ethan realizes the truth: the tunnel didn't take their time. It gave something a ride home.And now it's living inside their memories. Erasing. Rewriting.One by one, his friends are forgetting how to be human.Ethan is starting to forget too.