Delia thinks back to a time when she was drowning in a pool and her father just watched. Her mother saved her then.

Barry F. holds a party at his house in Alaska. Delia and her significant other, J, are there. They are comparing what places are the worst to be in. They discuss murders, sexual assaults, Satanists, and ritual killings that allegedly occurred in Anchorage. They talk about a sex worker who was murdered in a ritual killing; the killers were not found.

They say that it could be ritual insanity caused by the alignment of Planet X with Earth. The couple leaves the party. Delia insinuates that J was flirting with other girls. J makes a sexist remark. They drive home. Delia feels deep loneliness despite J’s presence. They go back to J’s duplex. Delia describes it as sterile and mostly empty. J works for the government and is not often home. They have been dating for nine months.

Delia presses him about his job. He says he does consulting work but a friend of Dalia’s said she saw him at an airport in a location he said he was not at. Dalia is drunk and is having a hard time thinking. She is skeptical of J now that they are alone.

J brings up Planet X. He says that the planet itself is not important, but its star is. Every few million years that star may emit lethal gamma rays. The star has other effects, including its responsibility for suicides, tsunamis, Earthquakes, and the death of the dinosaurs. J reveals that that night is going to be an extinction event, something called an AKA. J tells Dalia that he is a greeter. Dalia is confused by this. J goes to get his jacket. J was wearing his jacket and leaves Dalia alone in the car, without the keys. Dalia thinks about her family and career as a journalist in Anchorage. She contemplates calling her housemates. She leaves the vehicle and goes to hide in the bushes. J notices and calls for her. He speeds away. He says he is going to her apartment to surprise her. Dalia calls her roommates. None of her phone calls will go through.  Dalia walks back to Barry’s house. The house was dark and there was no more noise from the party that had recently left. The entire area is dark. She enters Barry’s darkened house, and it is completely quiet. Dalia makes her way to the living room where she smells blood and disgorged bowels. People are frozen like mannequins. They have been murdered (she assumes).

A closet door opened, and Dalia’s dog Atticus, who was supposed to be at her home, mysteriously trotted out. A figure appeared at the piano and began to hit the keys. Dalia hears her late father’s voice inside her head. The figure at the piano gestured and the starlight became a reddish hue that seeped into the room. The voice became louder. The voice is accusing her of thinking J is going to hurt her and that J reminds her of her father. She looks at the wax-like figures which are corpses. Wires from a convergence point in the ceiling pulled them upright. The voices say Delila won’t survive. The ceiling cracked revealing an abyss. The bodies are lifted into the abyss. Delila ran. Alaska was deserted. She traveled collecting things from abandoned places.

All domestic creatures were gone except the ‘other’ Atticus. The other dog brought her vermin and watched over her. Months went by. She had dreams where her mother revealed that her father was a murderer.

One day, J appears and tries to kill her. He runs away and Delila goes after him. She ties him up. J was grinning. Dalia asks where she can find more men like him when she makes it home.