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Submitted to Contest #100
It was dark, of course. Very dark. There was a blade of light coming from somewhere. It would have been a window to the sunset over the hills if there were any hills. Or sunset. Or windows. It must have been… Maybe a roaring pit of fire? Does fire does that kind of light? I don't know, it was hard to focus. Hard to think. I have been drunk, and it was not like that. I had been on drugs (hey, that was a long time ago) but it was different also. I felt ethereal. I wasn't really there, I couldn't keep all the details, all I could think of was h...
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