I Read Stories: The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han by Maria Dong

The Frankly Impossible Weight of Han by Maria Dong in Khōréō.

Grant Rutherford invents a machine that can copy anything, and extracts matter and energy from ambient sources. A Frankly Impossible Machine or FIM. This report admits that it cannot know everything as some of the information comes from ghosts.

Because Grant Rutherford’s wife has just died he carries a frankly impossible weight of Han. “Han is many things—grudge and pain, anger and sorrow. It can be passed from person to person like a virus, and its ability to trap spirits in this world is the main mechanism through which ghosts are formed.” The boxes are not mere dumb machines, as indeed no impossible machine could be. So Rutherford dies and so to do others, but this is not the end of their story which ripples out across the world as disaster spreads.

Read This: For a slow motion disaster that is very personal and ranges into the spiritual
Don’t Read This: You want your apocalypse to have less ghosts and gods and grief