Synopsis: A lab technician who must complete his tasks in pitch blackness accidentally sees the forbidden subject of his tests. Eyes That Do Not See There were no lights in the room where we kept the creature and, furthermore, we wore opaque goggles over our eyes when we performed our experiments on it in endless cycles of rotating shifts. "You must never lay eyes on the creature and you must never hear it," my superior warned me as we all stood together outside the laboratory on my first day, zipping ourselves into protective coveralls and sheathing our hands in thin, tactile gloves. "Tell me if you understand." I confirmed that I did. I had trained for six months to get my specialized lab technician credential and I knew the risks. On my superior’s signal, we slipped the noise-canceling pods into our ears and lowered our goggles. Calming music enveloped me. "Are you ready?" My superior's voice entered my ear canal in an electronically intimate...
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