Chapter 2

The beeping was driving me crazy.  In the darkness, I heard it.  At first it was very faint and far away, but slowly it became closer and louder.  The complete darkness had also started fading into a grey black hue, and small flashes of maroon behind my eyelids were keeping time with the incessant beeping.  I was going to Hell, I realised, in the back of a truck, driving in reverse.  The noises got louder, a whoosh of sound that seemed to pour into my skull like liquid.  There were hushed voices, telephones ringing in the distance.  The sound of cars on a road.  The click clicking of a ceiling fan.  Then there was that beeping noise which matched the tempo of my heartbeat exactly, filling my inner ear cavities with a warm pressur...

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