Audubon's hand-coloured plate of mallard ducks among reeds, 1834

Mallard, in a suit. Artist’s impression.

You're not the one.

A duck in a very small suit looked at you, said four words, and shut the door.

Plate: Mallard Duck by Robert Havell after John James Audubon, 1834. Public domain, via the National Gallery of Art. The suit is ours.

13
was the number on the ticket
2s
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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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.

See what the door has handed over so far