A story about... Nothing © 2000 Damon Diehl, Marg Frey, Greg Gbur, Bryce Graves-Hurst	MARG	GREG	BRYCE & DAMON
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			BRYCE	GREG & DAMON
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And once broken, it couldn't be replaced. Which was seen as unfortunate to no one at the time, there being no one at the time. Later, after there was someone, several someones, it was a subject of much debate as to whether the destruction of the white noise had been a good thing or a bad thing. But that's getting ahead of the story.

The ripple in the nothing moved, and as it moved, by definition, it defined space. And because it was moving, it defined time, and as it expanded a yawning existed where it had been. A void that was more than nothing because it knew that it lacked something. The nothing became a void with a purpose.

Or rather, the potential for purpose.