Things You Need
The air of benevolence faded, leaving him with nothing but cold emptiness, crushing loneliness, and worst of all, despair.
He slid to the cold concrete, lying in the fetal position, knees pulled to his chest, sobbing at the loss of something he couldn’t define, couldn’t grasp but also couldn’t bear. He blinked his eyes . . .
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. . . as if waking from a deep sleep. He found himself kneeling before the bookshelf in the rear of his office, trying to decide what book he should read next. He shook the Eight Ball with one hand, smiling. “What’s it going to be?” he whispered, “Classic literature, today?”
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