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- From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
- Subject: Through The Door
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.214826.16803@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 21:48:26 GMT
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- <David Bedno gave me the assignment
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- The words: fuck, shit, piss, damn.
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- The conditions: 1) The words must not be used in a "vulgar" manner.
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- So I did them as an acrostic, which is certainly not vulgar in any way.>
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- First one through the door was Larz. Under his feet crunched brittle shards
- of charred bone. Crouching down to examine them, he was almost knocked off
- his feet by a sudden wave of heat from the walls. Kiln-heat enveloped him,
- and soon his charred bones joined the rest on the floor.
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- Second through the door was Wally. He saw no bones; rather, he saw a single
- stunted bush, bearing black crystalline fruit. It was jarred by the closing
- of the door, and the fruit fell and shattered on the ground. The shards from
- the fruits' explosions ripped the flesh from Wally's bones, and the obsidian
- seeds nestled in the fertile soil they had found.
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- Perhaps Kees had the best chance of survival, being blind. Illusions spawned
- by the room had no effect on him. So he was spared the kind of deaths his
- comrades had suffered. Sadly, the room also contained more material dangers,
- as Kees discovered when the floor beneath his feet slid aside and he plummeted
- down the shaft below.
-
- Done with its victims, the room closed itself up and settled to digest. After
- a few hours, there was no trace of the three bodies. Most of their equipment
- that had remained undigested was funneled into a chamber below for later
- examination. New victims were making their way to its maw, and it wanted to
- be ready to receive them.
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
- "It's not my fault. The orchestra has disappeared."
- ---Hector Berlioz
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