The Inconvenience Store

2025 · 12 min · Action · Science Fiction

In 2064, Earth is plagued by toxic air and extreme weather. At a remote gas station in Nowheresville, California, shopkeeper Hiro, stranded traveler Tonya, and gruff trucker Ron clash in a heated altercation. When an emergency broadcast warns of extraterrestrial craft overhead—and a bleeding stranger stumbles in off the street—the group must decide whether to trust the approaching beings or prepare for a fight that could alter the fate of the universe.