Underground Comments

The two children - abruptly shoved off the platform into the path of an oncoming train - are not in that instant crushed by the wheels, but instead dissolved against the event horizon of a black hole suddenly materialized out of another galaxy.

Its unknowable surface accepts each of them. The girl becomes a dove caught by the softest, lightest of nets, the boy a silver fish motionless in a riverbank weir.
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