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[tomato_greens]

Title: Game Over, Insert Coin
Pairing: Aziraphale/Crowley
Rating: PG-13, I suppose.
Summary: The end of the world is quieter than you'd think.
Notes:575 words.
Disclaimer: Not mine, et cetera!

For paigehead, who read my original writing with great grace. Whee!

Comments

[the_leechwife]

Profound. Profound and actually quite frightening!

[tomato_greens]

Wow, thank yoU! That means a lot.

[geoviki]

Very nice! You have a perfect blend of humor and depth, and it seems just the right length, too.

[tomato_greens]

Oh, thank you so much.

[daughtersofisis]

Oh. Oh my. This is really, really good. I. Do not have enough adjectives. Er.

Bits I really liked:

It might be of interest to the reader that nothingness is not black. Black has too many human connotations; and anyway, black implies the absence of light. There is no room in nothingness for light, so there cannot be any concept so complex as the lack of it. There is, in fact, no word in any human language that can describe nothingness. Those who experienced it quickly disintegrated into sightless, soundless, paralyzed shadows of themselves, or died, restrained and screaming.

The closest word is, perhaps, colorless. Even that implies more than it should--it is not colorless; it is not anything.

Admittedly, that is sort of the point.
Brilliant kind-of-dark and kind-of-not--your mini-philosophical treatise, I suppose I would call it, reminds me of no one more than Terry Pratchett.

“God,” the someone repeated. The pain in the word cut through the soft susurration caused by anxiety and shuffling wings

[tomato_greens]

Wow . . . thanks! That's so nice of you to say!

[carmine_ink]

Oh, wow. This is really beautiful in ways I can't quite describe - for one reason or another it really impacted me. In fact, as soon as I post this comment, I'll likely read it again just to help it sink in. Absolutely gorgeous writing. :)

[tomato_greens]

Oh, thank you very much.

[sailorptah]

That's amazing.

[tomato_greens]

Thank you!