I open my eyes. It’s dark.

I close my eyes. It’s dark.

I blink them a few times.

No difference. It’s dark.

All I remember is standing here in the dark.

Nothing before that.

I feel my head.

It feels wet… sticky…

Is that blood?

I stick a finger in my mouth and taste the wetness.

It’s blood. My head is bloody.

And I can’t remember anything but being here.

I reach ahead… a wall. A wall to my left side… my right side… I turn around… one’s there too.

I reach up. A roof.

And it’s wet and sticky.

I decided to check out the topic of the day at 100wordstories.com.

It was "Close your eyes and leap."

I've notices a lot of hits coming from Stumbleupon.

Thanks for your support, and if I were to put StumbleUpon and Digg and other shortcuts on posts, would y'all find them helpful and actually use them?

Some sites have a dozen of those suckers at the bottom of their posts, and I used to have them here.

Generating next-to-nothing and nothing, of course.

So, if y'all want 'em and will use them, I'll add them. Just shout out in the comments, okay?

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