James Park is writing his memoirs after 31 years on the force. He's got one case stuck on his mind. Or in his mind. Or maybe nowhere at all.

There's no real way to be sure about a memory, is there?

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It’s not just a color out of space; it’s the shape of things to come.

How far would you go to hold on to someone you love?

To hold on to their memory?

How long?

How tightly?

What if you could bring them back?

What if they don’t want to let you go once you do?

It’s not just a color out of space; it’s the shape of things to come.

A technician walks a trainee through a routine toaster repair. Company policy requires reading the full error log before clearing it.

These models generate logs in an unusual format.

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It’s not just a color out of space; it’s the shape of things to come.

A systems engineer takes a six-month assignment aboard a supply ship to Mars. He shares the vessel with the ship's medical officer.

By the time they reach Mars, he'll have to make a choice. About his life. About hers. About reality.

It’s not just a color out of space; it’s the shape of things to come.

When the system fails you, you find your own solutions. When safety becomes something you have to buy, people buy it. When desperation becomes the only option, people get desperate. Technology doesn't care about intentions. It doesn't negotiate. It doesn't forgive. It just finishes what you started.

It’s not just a color out of space; it’s the shape of things to come.

A man who conducts exit interviews for a large corporation describes his daily routine: the questions that never change, the answers people rehearse, the recorder that sits between them.

When the company upgrades to a new system, small things begin shifting. The recorder turns itself on. Files appear before interviews happen. Access starts failing in ways that feel like glitches…until they stop feeling temporary.

This is his attempt to document what happened, recorded as clearly and completely as possible, because it's the last step before something he doesn't fully understand becomes final.

It’s not just a color out of space; it’s the shape of things to come.