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slash G-O. Welcome to Creep's Cast

I was given a device that allows me to time travel. What I saw was terrifying, written by Black Volumes.

Have any of you ever wanted to go back in time? That was the question Mr. Milton asked the other attendees at the bi-weekly bereavement support group.

I never did learn his first name, which given how intertwined our two lives became, may seem

rather odd.

Given the horror that followed, of course, it makes perfect sense.

Besides, grief is a disarming thing, a thing impossible to describe.

I could lie like other sufferers and offer a simplified explanation of the experience, could reduce

it to a mere dulling or heightening of emotions. However, it's far more complex than that. Grief is a

vulnerability which exposes that buried side of oneself, the ugly, that second ego

buried in some distant nook of the mind.

You might not even believe that yours exists, but it does, and the right kind of trauma can

unlock it.

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