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The Reaper of Tomorrow's,

whose ticking hand counts the sand

spilling through each day,

each atom, an instant, gone.

And as the hourglass tilts to draining,

so to the vanishing shores of hope.

Much like despair,

hope is hard to kill,

yet tenfold harder to find.

Because as each second swings by, as the distance between life and death shrinks,

so does hope.

For what once was the size of man devolves into a madman, an animal, a rat, a fleeting thought, barely sustainable,

barely, a crumb. In this story you will see one man pressed to the edge of despair as he struggles to survive.

The Pit and the Pendulum.

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1842.

I was sick, sick unto death with that long agony.

And when they at length unbound me and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses

were leaving me. The sentence, the dread sentence of death, was the last of distinct

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