Subject: [x-fiction] Opening Sentence Challenge - pax's answer
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:00:28 -0000
From: "paxnirvana1" <paxnirvana@attbi.com>

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by paxnirvana
Answer to Khaki's challenge. 2/7/02
Warning:  I'm feeling grim.  And yes, Morrison pissed me off.  The
bastard.

* * * * *

They died instantly.  Or the lucky ones did.  16 million people can't
all die at once, unless a Cosmic Avatar gets involved.

But the people of Genosha died nonetheless.  In agony.  In fear.  In
shock.  In desperation.  She'd felt them all, in her mind.  Until it
had all vanished.  Gone.  Hard and cold and shimmering.  And she was
finally alone in her mind.  But she could still hear their cries
echoing in the glittering prison of her mind.  Of pain.  Of anger.
Of confusion.

The screams.  Echoed.

Every minute of every day.

Emma Frost sat in the dark of her elegantly appointed room in
Westchester, her translucent white hands shaking as she stared
blindly at the stars that gleamed in the blackness outside the
windows.

Wondering why she had lived.

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