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"The boy lay on his bed, watching the air con shift dust particles in loops and spirals around the room. He breathed slowly, curled and uncurled his toes, watched the dust. It was surprising, really, how much of it there was. The air con has filters and the door was always closed, so all the dust in the room must have come from him. This was his body in particle form, breaking apart, cell by cell, to fill the space."

'Everything changes, if you wait long enough.'
'I don't want to wait.'

"Why had he done it? He must have thought, at some point, that he would catch something. What was it called, that feeling? He couldn't remember."

"Suddenly there is an edge to things. What yesterday was sure footing is now unstable ground."

"The sea has never been so far away."