Divide By Zero

Perihelion: (n.) The nearest point in a celestial body's orbit to the sun.

In 1977, news anchorman Virgil Meadowlark suffered a mysterious convulsion on live television, shaking and babbling- some said speaking in tongues. The network issued a press release claiming that he'd had a stroke.

It wasn't a stroke.

Meadowlark disappeared from public life for several years until he released a self-help manifesto. The book's readers became followers.

The Perihelion cult was born.

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