Expansion Joints: "Pass"

The "Expansion Joints" series of posts consists of responses to the "Expanders!" micro-fiction challenges, which began over at Porky's Expanse!, but are now hosted here at Nine Worlds, Ten Thousand Things.

Feel free to use any of my posts tagged as Expansion Joints in an epos.

Here are my responses to the March 27th, 2011 challenge:

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Everything closing in, he felt himself fading.

Suffocating?

Nothing left but to pass the torch.

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She had been able to pass before.

Now, a world's fate hung on the outcome.

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