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You are driving alone at night when suddenly the darkness around you is ablaze with electrical energy and abuzz with a sound like the tightening of a thousand violin strings. Your car’s lights flicker, then go dark, and the vehicle rolls to a stop. You fumble for your phone, but the screen is dark. And then, quite suddenly, so is everything else. The crackling sparks of light become waves of undulating blackness, and the scrabbling noise becomes a profound silence broken only by the impossibly… slow… thudding… of your own… heart……