Hell is an endless desert with a locked trap door in the sand. You sift for the key, always suffering but never dying.
When you find the key, you no longer know where the door is. You search for that instead.
You find the door. The key does not fit.
Begin again.
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[I SEEK OUT THE LOST] A forensic investigator stumbles onto a series of connected deaths spread across decades.
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A man found a bedraggled cat
Whose fur was just one giant mat
When he washed off the muck
He found he had no luck
For he'd actually rescued a rat.
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The magician felt around in his hat, then withdrew his hand with a sharp yelp. A rat clambered out and looked around, paws on the brim.
The audience applauded. The magician looked confused.
More rats emerged, a vermin wave. The audience stopped clapping and fled.
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The Pied Piper commands all things verminous
From rats down to beasties that squirm in us
If you're in his debt
Pay up or you'll get
To serve as their ultimate terminus.
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The air in the cave was foul and stale, tainted by millennia away from the surface. No one had been here in eons. No human had ever set foot here at all.
A metal sign on the wall said EARTH TERMINUS in a forgotten language. The portal below it was smashed apart.
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At the film festival known as Sundance
Indie flicks get more than one glance
They still end up lacking
In studio backing
But at least there's awards in abundance.
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People ask me why I talk about monsters and spirits as if they are real. It is because disbelief is not simply the lack of belief. It is a force by itself. It crushes possibility.
There is already an abundance of disbelief in the world. I do not choose to add to it.
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Archimedes thought himself clever
And said, "Someone bring me a lever
And I'll move the Earth!"
This was met with much mirth
Until his successful endeavor.
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A man on a diet reduce-ant
Found it was side effect induce-ant
It was making him thin
But all his hair and skin
Was slowly becoming translucent.
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Every endeavor carries a cost. We knew that millions of timelines would be consumed to power our time portal. We deemed it worth the sacrifice. After all, there were infinitely many.
We should not have been surprised other timelines were similarly dismissive of us.
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Good Neighbor Fences, with Translucent+ technology! Preventing you from feeling hemmed in just so you can keep your neighbors out. It offers an unobstructed view of the landscape while editing out any annoying people or animals!
It's like having no neighbors at all!
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An orchestra thought to be frail
Was changed to be too big to fail
With nine hundred musicians
The conductor cried, "Listen!
I simply can't play at this scale!"
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"Mommy, what kind of animal is the tooth fairy?"
"Well, she's a fairy, sweetie."
"But is that a lizard or a snake or what?"
"Why would she be a kind of lizard?"
The child smiled a toothless grin. Her cupped hands held an iridescent scale for each missing tooth.
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A being made of ectoplasm
Felt the remnants of its conscience spasm
It thought, "I want friends
But what friendship depends
On luring folks into a chasm?"
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No one knew why they went to the a Memory Chasm. That was the whole point. Anything thrown in there was gone forever, plucked from the mind as if it had never existed.
The bottom was littered with the shards of things that had once been called important and loved.
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[FIND ME] What if there was a dead world that only you could see?
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In sovereign citizenry
There's a claim that cookware sets you free
If you bring in enough
They can't charge you with stuff
It's called submitting a panoply.
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The clock museum holds a panoply of devices, all ticking and whirring. The true clock only appears on the hour when all the other clocks chime. The waves of sound vibrate it into existence.
For a moment, that literal moment, it is possible to step between times.
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