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‘To whom it may concern; I am so sorry.’ Nine words in and already, a tear slides down my cheek, dripping onto the red wooden desk that has been the fulcrum of my ambition. ‘Someone must know what has been done. Whether this is document is a warning, or a deathrattle, or an email that never makes it to your inbox, I cannot go silently. We were doing it for the best of reasons, I promise. Why would you want to split an atom, to wield the power of the sun itself, when you can wield the power of a God?’ My hand shakes as it reaches those final...
The evening sun is gleaming through the glass door as it makes its slow descent to sunset, and the shopkeep takes a moment to soak in its rays, like a warm bath. The store smells of coffee beans and steamed milk and, faintly, cleaning products. The shopkeep flips the sign from ‘open’ to ‘closed’, but he doesn’t touch the lock just yet – he's still expecting one last guest. He turns around. The coffee shop is more like a bar – one long , dark, swirling wooden counter, with several stools comfortably spaced along the length. On the other side...
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My sleep was not a peaceful one. Images of vicious sights danced through my mind, walking up and down my memories and revisiting them with a cruel imagination. Youthful birthday parties became blood-soaked massacres. Graduations became graveyards. Moving out became running away. Through it all, was that man – that thing. Standing, far back: in the treeline of my childhood house, in a faraway window of my college campus, across the street from my parents home as I waved goodbye. Shadowy, distorted, inconsistent, but always there, like an o...
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