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THE COIN TINK, CLINK, CLINKETY – CLINK. The coin had flipped end over end, showing dull glints on its tarnished sides as it spun in the dusty air. Eyes had watched the spinning coin, eyes wide in the near dark space and a sibilance of indrawn breaths was the only sound to be heard as it spun. Then slowly, the spinning dwindled and the coin had made its inextricable way down, down to the surface of the table below waiting to catch it. Now, spinning on the table, the coin clinked and chinked on the metalic surface, sounding like a tiny ...
SENSELESSIt was dark.Not just an ordinary dark, but a total absence of light. It was an inky blackness that seeped from the walls - if walls there were - and made those walls cease to exist. It was a blackness that was all encompassing, smothering in it's totality. It muffled sounds - it muted other senses that struggled to compensate for the lack of light, striving to facilitate some sense of...something. This dark was a black blanket that spread over everything - absorbing everything and giving nothing in return.Something.Then, within the ...
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