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The silence is so deep it hurts our ears

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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

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A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.

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Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, ...more

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I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke from the mouth of a gun.

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Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lo...more