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Submitted to Contest #64
What is it that makes the beatings of the heart raise? Emptiness. One way or another it frightens you. It alarms you what may hinder in the void as much as it terrifies you to realize you are alone and slowly going mad. Perhaps that is why we dread the idea of death. Being buried in the darkness of rotting wood around you while death eats your skin for all eternity. It compels you to fabricate a world beyond with ghosts and souls. He used to be my favourite child, Arthur. He was kind, in the blossoming youth with seventeen years of age. I mi...
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