The door opened and nobody said anything.

Eleven seconds passed. Something behind the door was definitely waiting for you to speak first.

Eleven seconds. We counted them twice, because the first count felt too long to be real.

5
was the number on the ticket
1s
spent standing in the line
a common ending
is what the door handed over
none given
was the name on the ticket

This page is the only record of it. Nothing here changes again, so it can be sent to somebody, or kept, or ignored.

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An engraved 1898 share certificate beginning "This is to Certify that"
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A crowd in hats and fur coats standing in a line in the snow outside the White House, 1909
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A door at the bottom of the Idrija mercury mine, opening onto a tunnel. Ten seconds, on a loop, going nowhere.

Everybody gets one of these.

Twenty endings, drawn on the server when the door reaches your number. Sixty percent of them are some form of nothing, and this one was drawn the same way as those.

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