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Bleak corporate horror meets cosmic apocalypse: FOOD4U! is a darkly funny Lovecraftian nightmare where minimum-wage workers face the end of reality in the aisles of a big-box discount store.
Joe Sutter just wants to get through his shift. Clock in, push carts, avoid customers, clock out. But when the power dies inside a FOOD4U! big-box store in rural Illinois, Joe and his coworkers discover they’re trapped in something far worse than retail hell.
Customers stand frozen in the aisles. A homeless man claiming to be a professor screams that the universe is ending. Black, living hair creeps from the walls. Blue, electric moth-things drop from the ceiling and kill on contact. And somewhere beneath the store, in a basement no one wants to enter, something vast and hungry is trying to be born.
As waves of impossible creatures tear through the store—acid-spitting chicken bugs, parasite-filled rats, and worse—the employees learn the truth: the customers were hypnotized, but the workers weren’t. They’re too angry, exhausted, and full of resentment for late-stage capitalism itself to control.
Come for the savings. Stay for the end of everything. Pick up FOOD4U! today!
Joe Sutter just wants to get through his shift. Clock in, push carts, avoid customers, clock out. But when the power dies inside a FOOD4U! big-box store in rural Illinois, Joe and his coworkers discover they’re trapped in something far worse than retail hell.
Customers stand frozen in the aisles. A homeless man claiming to be a professor screams that the universe is ending. Black, living hair creeps from the walls. Blue, electric moth-things drop from the ceiling and kill on contact. And somewhere beneath the store, in a basement no one wants to enter, something vast and hungry is trying to be born.
As waves of impossible creatures tear through the store—acid-spitting chicken bugs, parasite-filled rats, and worse—the employees learn the truth: the customers were hypnotized, but the workers weren’t. They’re too angry, exhausted, and full of resentment for late-stage capitalism itself to control.
Come for the savings. Stay for the end of everything. Pick up FOOD4U! today!
316 pages, Paperback
Published March 20, 2026
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