When a sinister creepy-crawly appears in the West Texas desert, the local sheriff bugs out. He and an unlikely team of locals try to stop the creature, but the future devolves into the past, and the heroes find themselves outmatched.  Reminiscent of Richard Matheson, Stephen King and Ray Bradbury, Pendulum Grim  author E. R. Bills' prose is sparse, direct, and imaginative, but always rooted in the stark implications of the present. Nature Calls  lets things play out for humanity the way they may very well might.