Six months ago, my partner and I finally got around to cleaning out my childhood home. While a part of me insists it was because we had to sell that old place now that Dad was no longer inhabiting it, another, more insidious part whispered—what if? What if I found something everyone else had missed? But all I found were boxes of old tax documents, shopping receipts, contracts, and what I initially thought was a manuscript.


  • 1914 — Dr. Emil Krasner is declared missing during the Shackleton Expedition. Seven days later, he is found near Mount Erebus in perfect health, alongside a man named Julian Al-Jurjani who claims to be his longtime assistant. According to the ship’s logs, no one of that name was ever aboard the Endurance.

  • 1963 — Project Blue Book hires on Dr. Verne Krasner as their resident theoretical physicist, declaring no conflict of interest in regards to the Krasner family, their unearthly prowess in weapon’s manufacturing, or their involvement in the conflict in Vietnam.

  • 1978 — Miguel “Mike” Delgado, begins his job as a security guard at The Mall, a complex that always keeps the well-being of its workers and visitors in mind.

  • 1978 — Miguel “Mike” Delgado meets Cy, Stereo Shack’s Employee of the Month three years in a row, and falls in love.

  • 1983 — A sequence known as The Event shuts down the complex, forcing the evacuation of the nearly 15,000 American citizens that live along its perimeter. Two casualties are reported at the epicenter, one witness is alive but no longer of sound mind, and one individual remains missing.

  • 2016 — Miguel “Mike” Delgado leaves his house in the middle of the night.

  • 2021 — Miguel “Mike” Delgado is legally declared dead.

    • I am transcribing his entries both in memoriam, and as an indirect request on his behalf:

    “This is for Cy but I’ve no idea how to get it out to him. It ain’t like I can post it to the newspaper when I’ve no freaking idea where he at.”

    So, this is for you, Dad. May the internet do its thing and find “Cy”, whoever he may actually be. If not, well, may a piece of your madness remain on the unkillable world wide web—making you, technically, in some ways, immortal. — Poppy Del @ dontforgetthis.com (2022)






    PROJECT SINGULARITY is an experimental writing project that samples multiple forms of media: from video, to websites, to good old fashioned prose, (and ideally a video game). While entrenched in the staples of the unfiction genre, Project Singularity aims to primarily deliver a readable science fiction horror experience, with all its extra bits and bobs serving as supplemental material. (Consider it a more accessible version of an ARG.)