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He remembered something Nicky had once told him back in college, about how you could disprove thousands upon thousands of phony haunted-house stories, reports of apparitions, UFO sightings, claims made by psychics and charlatans-but if even a single ghost or spell or saucer could truly be proved to exist, that one example would change everything forever. [...]
— Oct 25, 2023 04:30AM
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Here the tale degenerates into an unsifted collection of items which may or may not be related: pieces of a puzzle for those who fancy themselves puzzle fans, a random swarm of dots, and in the center, a wide unwinking eye.
— Oct 24, 2023 07:55AM
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His last words are unrecorded, which is probably just as well—what are anyone’s last words, after all, except a curse, a cry for help, or a string of nonsense?
— Oct 23, 2023 09:01AM
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His way to the cabinets was blocked by the dilapidated wreck of a bureau and, propped against it, the shell of a medicine chest, its door sagging open, the mirror somehow intact. He avoided looking at his image as he stepped past it: an old fear, resurrected in the faint attic light, to see some other face looking back at him.
— Oct 23, 2023 06:51AM
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Oct 25, 2023 04:30AM
[...] Grant the reality of a single spirit and you found yourself faced with an entire cosmos of them. And it dawned on him, suddenly, that this was what had happened-that, in an instant, everything had changed: those two small words that stared at him from the page, eleven scribbled letters barely an inch long, had punched a single tiny hole in his universe, like the hole at the bottom of a bucket. He sat there, staring dumbly, as all his certainties leaked out.
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