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Necessity
April 18, 2022
A speeding truck. Squealing brakes. A soft thud, a brittle crunch.
A man lies in a black void.
Slowly he stands, disturbed by his surroundings.
He sees in front of him a woman, clothed in white, a shawl hiding her face.
The man stumbles backward. The woman is motionless.
A baby's scream echoes through the featureless void. She looks up, then to the man.
With a sound of rending metal, a scythe forms in her hands.
The baby screams louder.
The scythe marks the man's neck, his blood spreading through the air like ink through water.
The noise quiets.
© Anonymous
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