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When Did They Stop Being Balls?
About this piece
One ball in a box. Then ten. Then a hundred.
The rule never changes. They bounce, they bump, they fall. But somewhere on the way to a million they stop acting like balls. They lock into a crystal, slosh like water, pile up like sand, draw shapes on a shaking floor, and pull each other into a galaxy. Then the whole thing folds back into one.
I keep looking for the exact number where it changed. A hundred? Ten thousand? Maybe there isn't one. Where do you think it happened?
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