"Really shouldn't. I had too much planned this week."

After breakfast, you?ve barely had time to start updating your Facebook page when Mom calls. Before you hang up, she asks you to grab some luggage for her out from underneath the stairwell.

Down on your hand and knees, you creep into the crowded room that serves as a storage area. Thankfully, you find what she?s looking for almost immediately and turn to head out. But then a shimmer of light catches your eye. Turning, you?re temporarily blind yourself when looking directly at it. It?s coming from the very back of the room, though boxes are obscuring its source. A little nervous as to what could be causing such an anomaly, you cautiously inch forward until you?re just a couple feet away.

The light grows dimmer?no wait, darker?as you approach, until all you can see is black. A different black than the general darkness of the room. Scared, but unable to pull away, you gently push aside the few boxes until you reveal their secrets.

Before you, stretched from ceiling to wall, can be described no other way than a black hole. The shimmering light you noticed is still there, in the middle of the void, but barely perceptible even now. Reaching out with a finger, you pass it into the blackness just an inch or two. You?re unable to see it behind the curtain; in fact, you?re not sure you can feel it anymore. What the hell? Quickly, you withdraw your finger, grateful to discover it still intact.