A Visitation Chronicle

“The truth was much closer, much more intimate, and only ever revealed when the technology of forgetting failed.”
For years, he dismissed the strange memories as vivid dreams. An old friend with no gender, a cool touch like polished marble, and conversations about the shifting geometry of distant galaxies. He wasn't afraid of the visitor—he knew him.
But when a painful lump appears at the base of his skull, the visits become real. After a clumsy extraction by a dismissive dermatologist, the dark, dense object is gone, yet the world remains unsettlingly changed. His senses are hyper-alert, the colors of Florida are blinding, and the air is electric.
Now, caught between a rational diagnosis ("an old compressed cyst") and the harrowing reality of what he remembers—a lifetime of encounters and a final, failed implant—he must confront the truth: he is one of the statistics. And the fragile memory he holds might be the only evidence that this extraordinary reality exists.
A compelling short story that blends intimate friendship with unsettling sci-fi mystery.