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- From: mrx@annexia.esd.sgi.com (cloaking the constant k)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: malignancy
- Message-ID: <vbd1h7k@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 02:28:49 GMT
- Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Organization: the theory that jack built
- Lines: 40
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- snow fell in the room. the kind of thing that
- it was, it did. it grew. he didn't dare move
- closer, because he knew what could happen if his
- presence were detected. from behind a bank of dials
- he watched blue veins creep snake-like across the
- grey tissue.
-
- he could hear its heart muscle pumping, large now,
- bigger than his head. it writhed, pressed itself
- against the interior of the thick glass cylinder, one
- lidless eye staring out at him across the white-
- dusted tiles. he guessed then that the cold wouldn't
- contain it much longer.
-
- he was in the hallway when he heard the glass
- shatter. he ducked his head and ran for the
- pneumatic shaft. his fingers stabbed at the
- chrome buttons as the earth trembled and then
- gave way beneath his feet.
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-
- from a distance, one might have mistaken it for
- an explosion, the tell-tale mushroom of a small
- atomic device. except that the cloud did not
- disperse, and there was no fire. only close
- inspection with binoculars might have revealed
- the rippling grey folds flesh and sinew pushing
- free of the laboratory's wreckage.
-
- and the thousands of lidless eyes.
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-
- mr x
-
- it came, it saw, ...
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