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Note to Self: Do not open the red door. The red door is a lie. Elias blinked. He scrolled up. The file was massive—thousands of lines. He scrolled down. Day 400: I finished the radio. It doesn't transmit sound. It transmits memories. I beamed a memory of a birthday cake into the ether. I hope someone caught it. I’m running low on copper. The walls are closer today. The red door is humming. It was a work of fiction. Someone must have saved a draft of a novel with a weird extension. Elias checked the metadata. The "Last Modified" date was today . 3:14 AM.
He right-clicked the file. Open with... Select Program... Notepad.
He looked around the room. On his bookshelf, where there had previously been a gap, sat a single, dusty book. He pulled it down. It was a manual on how to build a radio.