Friday, February 24, 2006 | 8:55 PM

The doctor sliced open the heart, and immediately, poison black fumes wafted out. Like curling tendrils that will hook onto your soul and never let go, sapping all matter of warmth away. He instinctively took a step back and dodged the spiral of air by a millimetre.

Pulling a gas mask over his nose, he reached into the opened cavity and fished around. He peered in and there it was, a tiny black fist clenched around the heart. Prying it away using his hands was a sturggle, but when he finally managed to dettach it from the organ and brought it up from the body towards the lght for a closer look, the black venomous object, upon coming into the path of the white light, promptly decomposed into a mess of black burning ash.

Operation completed.

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