Stories tagged “light”
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Now and Forever
The apartment was dark and musty; the fingers of sunlight had not brushed the living room in days. The whole building was buzzing with the news. Everyone three floors above and below had heard the fight – the screams, the insults, the words. She ...
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Burial
A casket, a hymn, For light in alive eyes Death darkens them dim.
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She Recovers
So unsure of what to do with herself It sickens her Nowhere to place her hand Where it stays secure It splinters when it touches any surface Breaks through leaving a hole It becomes just black Endless black She never falls in She promised herself To st...
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Life Light
In high school I was average. Average grades. Average hair. Average everything. I wasn’t popular, or the weirdo—and for the record—I wasn’t the slut either. My upbringing wasn’t one that would appear on Oprah. I came from ...
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A Consequence Of Light And Life
Burnt out stars Shine from afar— When our bare Skeletons already are Pockmarked like Mars The Sun will be a speck Newly born in the outer parlors.
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Blinded
When the lights were on, life was vibrant. The people danced, colors swirled, music blared and smiles shone as bright as the glitter and sequins. The night was dark, but after the club closed we drove around, the crew attempting to keep the party going...
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The Heavy Breath of the Dark
I awake into the deepest, darkest black imaginable. I can see nothing but the heavy breath of the dark. It clings to my body like a tangible force, but it’s all psychological—it’s just my eyes not registering the fact that there is no...
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The Darkness
Time was quickly running out for Janet and she knew it. She had barricaded the room with as many random objects as she could find, but it would only prolong the inevitable. Janet spent the last few minutes she had looking for something, anything that c...
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Restless Nights, Not A Stir Threw The Night
“Shut the fuck up.” Dark figured replied. “Well I can see we are going to have a great conversation here.” I was only able to see three people in the room at this point of time. One was a skinny figure, the other was tall, and t...
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listen...to the violent silence
She was watching him, waiting “You don’t know,” he started, “the silence, its killing me inside. I’m dying. The silence, isn’t it affecting you? Or am I the only one going insane?” The coffee was now resolved to a ring at the bottom of hi...
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Just a Light Switch Away
The monsters head slithered across the ocean of my bed spread leading its ships and fleets across the sheets to a new victim. The victim being me. It was now or never a if iI hesitate a moment longer, I’m a goner it has almost climbed to the edge of ...
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Light at the end of the tunnel
“Know what?” I ask, my shrill voice echoing off the cavern walls, but there’s no answer. I stand alone in the cavern. The explosion of colour which had appeared to me only moments before is now gone. It’s just me. “Over h...
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Everything in the Right Place
Lydia walked up the stairs wearily, a sheaf of dark hair covering her face like a raven’s wing. “Brian?” she called out as she reached the second landing. Her voice echoed back, the sound of it mocking to her ears. She shrugged out of...
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Light On, Lights Out
Mrs. Light stuck her head in her daughter’s room, “Ezzie, are you…” “Oh! Mom, hey mom! Yes, mom, hi, mom. Yeah! Hey, you look great, great. Great? Great! Mom…” This kept going, and all Mrs. Light could do was r...
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Maten las Luces
Inez d’Umbroso peered in through the skylight, thoroughly disgusted with the frivolity of these ostentatious displays. She’d been denied all that was light, everything deemed good. It seemed these ricos asquerosos had banished her to live w...
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Light in the Theater
We sat in the theater, making light conversation with each other as we waited for the show to begin. “What’s the name of this play again?” “Lemme check… Arsenic and Old Lace.” “Oh.” And so ended an enligh...
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Out There
“What do you mean that’s all I can see?”, Margaret demanded. “That’s it. Well, not entirely, but yes, that is all you can see.”, replied Dave. “But how? It’s space. How big could it be?” “Very...
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Push Off
I step up to the platform; a bored man motions me to sit. I look over my shoulder to get once last glance before I plummet down. Their faces are in a smiles, they’re jumpy and overly excited. I am scared out of my mind. I sit down reluctantly and...
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Transmission
Come in radio Can you read my transmission radio? Radio come in Can you here me Listen carefully To whoever is near? We are low on fuel Need of help We are flying low We can’t make it any further Radio come in radio Transmission lost…...
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Lightless
The electricity had been out for several months now; only a rare, startled flickering would sometimes awaken a random light bulb. For the most part, the dark of night was as it had been before technology saved civilization from its fear of the unknown....
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Her Land
Her fingers left a trail along the glittering water, like champagne this time of day. The boat glided easily along the tawny shore, its saffron exterior reflecting back the water’s inner glow. The incidental princess leaned back and surveyed what...
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Lost to the Light
The light grew brighter behind him, and for a brief instant, I could see the wild desperation in his eyes. But as it continued to intensify, I couldn’t see much of anything at all. “Wait!” he pleaded, and I saw in my mind’s eye ...
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Home Alone
I walk through my empty house humming to myself. I head towards my kitchen to grab snack. As I rummage through the cupboards looking for a decent snack that isn’t to fattening, I hear the floor creak. I freeze and look towards the hallway that le...
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Down the Fish Hole
Greg stood there on the boat, one hand holding the light meter’s digital readout, the other holding the light meter over the side. “There’s more light on the bottom than there is on the top.” “It’s just screwy, Greg....
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Created Hell
They are scientists taking you under their spell Love, they are giving you their created hell Broken hearts dangling on the mantle The only light seems to burn in a dreamland candle You only see it when you are asleep When you aren’t aware of wha...