{"id":86968,"date":"2020-10-29T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968///wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968//?post_type=article&p=86968"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:49:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:49:01","slug":"apocalypse-1999","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968///wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968//www.yesmagazine.org/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968//social-justice/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968//2020/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968//10/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968//29/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968//apocalypse-1999","title":{"rendered":"When the World Ends Before Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n

It began in darkness. In a salt circle, on the floor, sigils were drawn. A certain arrangement of numbers and planetary signs was made, suitable to the purpose. Within the circle, a pentagram; within the pentagram, a triangle; within the triangle, the most forbidden tool of the summoner/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/u2019s art, a black mirror. It gleamed with reflected candlelight, like a fragment of the starry void; an unholy portal, a hole punched through the fragile skin of our reality, a gate opened to the unthinkable, allowing the thousands of Hells beneath our world to seethe through./wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n

You can make your own black mirror at home, by the way. It/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/u2019s easy. If you read to the end of this, I/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/u2019ll give you the instructions./wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n

The room of the ceremony was pitch-black and clouded with smoke. In its center, huddled over the light of a black candle, were the summoners: A pale, frightened girl and a boy with a knife in his hand./wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n/wp-json/wp/v2/article/86968/n

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