The Sound of an Enormous Door

The Panama Canal is drying up and you still believe we live on a planet where your grandchildren will have grandchildren. Wake up. Black Patrick's The Sound of an Enormous Door follows a small group of unlikely individualists beyond our imminent extinction. You were not warned. You were not told, they were never going to tell you. By the time you found out it was too late. All those you expected to help were long gone. The mass scattering of humanity followed no pattern. People simply went away. Some died in unspeakable ways. Save for a very few, everyone remaining - your family members, loved ones, friends, neighbors, and all of the others in places known and unknown - starved to death. You were told every day of your life to do everything you could do to avoid the inevitable pain, suffering and death. Nobody in your social circles wanted to discuss uncomfortable topics. Your imminent murder by an organized criminal enterprise, for example. At the same time, you were systematically lied to, threatened, cheated and deceived. You chose to believe that which reinforced your personal belief system, political inclinations and perceived status in society. You made decisions based on past patterns, immediate desires, and delusions of a future that never arrived. Your unassailable beliefs and holy wisdom didn't save you from reality. The narrow sliver of ideology you believed better than everything else ended up dead like everything else.