This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.
In the first couple of weeks there were big piles of trash outside every house. All the stuff you couldn__ find another use for and couldn__ compost. Yogurt cups, torn trash bags, dirty diapers, hair-spray cans, paper towels. Sometimes you__ see a pile that was as high as your waist. Nathan said it was a purge, a cleanse. But you could just as well say that who we were went out with the empties. We will never get our selves back.
The Empties
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In the first couple of weeks there were big piles of trash outside every house. All the stuff you couldn__ find another use for and couldn__ compost. Yogurt cups, torn trash bags, dirty diapers, hair-spray cans, paper towels. Sometimes you__ see a pile that was as high as your waist. Nathan said it was a purge, a cleanse. But you could just as well say that who we were went out with the empties. We will never get our selves back.
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