Stories tagged “shadows”
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The absence of light.
The shadowman whispered. “The wicked walk free while the righteous sleep. Are you sleeping Little Brother? I am not.” He was bright, luminescent, terrible, glorious, consuming. I was awestruck. The whisper came again through the light. “Do you wa...
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The tunnel
She lay there on the floor. she felt a little as if she was gently sinking into the thick shagpile. her head was swimming, and her breathing was becoming shallow. Her mind seemed to be drifting away, out, up, over away from her body. They were still in...
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A Child's View of Trees at Night
Their eyes are dull, the spark long gone, but still their stench remains. Among the graves and cold headstones, Beneath the waning moon, Under the starry sky that lights the ground with ever dimming lights, I have seen unimaginable things, I have seen ...
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On the Play Field of Battle, Such As It Was
With his usual knack for going unseen, Alex slipped from the classroom and bolted for the outside door. A quick left out the heavy, metal door, and he was rounding the side of the building to the wide play yard. There the lady in black stockings contin...
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Idiot Logic
Idiot Logic. That’s what his older brother called it, that sort of knowing without knowing that occurs from time to time. It happens a lot in dreams, they’d both decided. In the waking world it tended to dictate random fibs to their mother,...
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The 12 o'clock Train from Hattisburg (4)
Ihad reached the penumbra area in unconsciousness. Not comatose and also not quite awake. Some call it the ‘Twilight Zone’. Also called The Alice Shadow World’ so named as a young lass named Alice found herself caught in the void when...
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Shadows are scary
Alice was swimming happily. Pearl was awaiting her turn to take a splashy revenge on Alice. Then Annie joined them in their water fight. Zia sat there enjoying looking at the eventful fight. Suddenly Zia saw a dark shadow creeping up from the floor of ...
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In An Alley
Blonde hair turned black with shadow and rain. It fell into his eyes as he watched her. She stood on the sidewalk. The only light was a street lamp that sent shadows dancing on the ground. Her long ebony hair plastered to her body, clothes clinging to ...
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Shadows of Revsar
Fire danced around Eldarion as he struggled through the burning streets of Veldanar. Why now? How could he have faltered in his watch? The windward was gone! With it had died any hope of an end to this darkness. A whirling noise grabbed his attention, ...
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Of Flame and Shadow
The figure in the shadows stepped into the firelight, smiling wickedly. The sword at Eldarion’s chest rose unfalteringly to his throat and Meldof shrugged. “The Light may never be dimmed, but these last decades have hardly been the enlighte...
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Remnants
Trees leave Dried pine Needles On floors Of wood In the Shadows Of doors
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Shadow Walker
Night fell. The shadows grew and the trees shrieked and cackled in delight as the girl wandered aimlessly through the darkening wood. The creatures of the dark followed her behind the trees and watched the young child with quizzical faces. Why is she h...