title: IF YOU'RE AFRAID OF DARK
author: Edens
description: Presents advice for a variety of situations, including what to do if the sky falls, the bus doesn't come, the sun never shines again, and there is no happy ending.
zlib_text: The Gates
  of Eden
  Brian Stableford
  As you move along the corridor the hands sprout from the walls, their slow, slimy fingers groping
  for your arms and your ankles. The cobwebs catch your face, caressing you, and you feel the eyes
  of the great fat spiders watching you. They don't move, but some-how that's no mercy.
  There are ghosts nearby, but you'll never see them. They're inside the walls, where ghosts prefer to
  live, coexistent with cold stone. That's your destiny: to wait out eternity entombed in solid rock,
  moving through the barriers that set apart the spaces where the others live.
  The others?
  You're one of the others right now. An ephemeral creature; a meaningless dream of the nucleic
  acids, a sport in the grand game of life. Flesh and blood—flesh that is made to feel pain; blood that
  fills you up so that every least pin prick will burst you and spill you and shrink you and feed the
  vampire until you shrivel and fade away and run for cover to the bosom of the cold, cold watts.
  Th