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A brief story by Ampe R. Sand                                                  
First-time players should type "about".                                        
Release 2 / Serial number 000925 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10                   
                                                                               
Odd, how the light just makes your apartment gloomier. Pre-dawn darkness pools 
in the corners and around the tops of walls. Your desk lamp glares yellow, but 
the shadows only draw your eyes and deepen.                                    
                                                                               
Not much of an apartment, no. One desk, paper-piled, with a dusty computer     
shoved to the side. Your futon. Second-hand stereo sitting on a cardboard      
crate. A kitchen nook one way and a bathroom nook the other, with a closet to  
the side. A broad mirror tries to make the place seem twice its size; it       
halfway works. One window, whose shade is down, and the front door firmly shut.
                                                                               
Your luggage is piled untidily by the door. A potted hyacinth sits beneath the 
window.                                                                        
                                                                               
You are sprawled on the futon, staring up into that gloom. Your eyes feel      
gritty. But it's too late -- early -- no time left for sleep, anyway. In a few 
hours your ride will arrive.                                                   
                                                                               
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