Tonight’s tale begins in a hole, dug deep into the earth by a creature that wants nothing to do with the world. The hole is merely a space in the earth for him to occupy until he passes from this world. For that is all this creature wants. He seeks oblivion.             Yet the outer world would still claim this creature’s time and labor. The creature is awakened from his wretched slumber by merciless lights that flash in his eyes and a thunderous pounding in his skull. So the creature answers the phone he had been sleeping on, and discovers he is late for work.             Thrust back into the world he wanted to abandon, the ruined creature bathes in freezing waters and is subjected to the judging stares of an outraged class of students. This causes him to violently retch in the river, which just makes it worse. He then runs through the streets and endures the outright hostility of the types of jackasses who honk their horns at pedestrians. He finally arrives at his job, where things start to go really bad for him.             It is hard to know what finally broke him. It could have been the pedantic middle manager drunk with the authority granted to him by elites who couldn’t care less about him. It could have been the sniveling customers who tried to make him share the burden of their idiocy. Although it was more than likely his altered physical state from his time being held as a prisoner of the cult of the spider. Whatever it was, our hero looked the world in the face and declared that he would rather not.             So he retreats to the darkness. But there, he finds he is not alone. In fact, his decision to abandon humanity was not entirely his own.  Our retching demon soon learns that he has been expected by an old evil from his past. This tale involves one guy retching more than is entirely necessary. It also contains references to antisocial behavior, body horror, vampirism, occult themes, violence, bureaucracy, and profanity. Listener discretion is advised.