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Authors: Perrin Briar
There were muffles from inside, someone fast asleep, or at the edge of waking. The sinkhole was silent, one reason that made it so deadly.
“Wake up!” George shouted. “Wake up! There’s a sinkhole! We’re going to-!”
And that’s when the snow and ice collapsed, the sinkhole giving up all pretensions of a slow drawn-out death and sucked the contents of the crater into itself.
George screamed, and there came another scream, high-pitched and piercing, from the shack. George fell back into the snow, his mouth clogged with ice. His eyes felt frozen. He took a deep breath as the sinkhole seized him and dragged him under.
The last thought that passed through George’s mind before he fell toward oblivion was of Aaron, his graduation, and his broken promise, and a deep regret, colder, harsher, and more painful than the ice that consumed him. The shelter and jet ski followed him into the abyss.
As if it were a monster and it had had its fill, the sinkhole ceased, and the remaining snow dribbled down into the crater and lay there, untouched and perfect. The wind howled over the landscape, silent and still. Nothing remained of the camp. It, and the existence of anything that had been there, had been wiped clean, as if it had never existed at all.
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A sinkhole is a natural phenomenon. It can happen anywhere, anytime. It drinks lakes dry, consumes jungles, and even demolishes entire mountains. You may have seen one in your street. But these things aren’t lost. They’ve simply been moved. Things are forgotten on the surface all the time. Beneath the crust, they’re always remembered.
A forgotten world. A lost world. But not for long.
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