Wayne has a good job, in a quiet place. The kind of job that gives him all the time he needs, and plenty of space to enjoy it.All he has to do is tend the Pile: a Cold War relic, a nuclear waste dump that has, so far, found no cause for trouble.Only... the Pile has been whispering. It has a demand. A small one. Just a tiny little thing, an opening for something from within the Pile to pass through.Wayne's definitely not ready for his first glimpse of what might come through...