HollowDestruction

Stein sat, hunched in his chair, staring blankly at the computer monitor before him. He focused on the flashing cursor, the tiny section of pixels rapidly changing from black to white and back again.  His eyes felt tired, hard to focus; protesting retinas sending dull pain through his shot nerves with each blink. He sighed and pushed up his glasses, forcing himself out of his stupor and reviewing the text on the screen. The first paragraph or so were as he had intended, no off-topic rambling or grammatical errors; his procedural data was neatly recorded,  tested results and standardized control listed side by side with their partic