Annie feels as if she is floating. Levitating. Suspended. But she knows physics. What goes up must come down. For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. She knows.
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Harvey feels as if the soles of his feet are turning to stone. His legs, his buttocks, every part of him in contact with the floor or the bed is becoming weightier and weightier. His hand is so dense. Packed with so much matter. It is the universe before the Big Bang. All that magnitude and matter compressed and compressed into the smallest of spaces. That is Harvey’s hand. He cannot lift it.
‘I’m not breathing properly.’
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