Birthday Boy and the End of the World
12 min readJun 25, 2021
You’re just doing your job when the world ends.
Hal logged into the company’s computer and used the only program he had access to: the punch-in/punch-out software. He was thankful for the job. It paid well and there was a certain amount of prestige working at a research facility. EKKOlation was dedicated to studying sound and its properties.