Walter Treat

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“Two-Thirds Darkness” by Walter Treat

Submitted to Contest #23

In the summertime, I always clung to the precious few hours of nighttime with selfish devotion. For two-thirds of each day, the sun hung overhead, and its unstoppable warmth and light sapped the energy of everything in the forest. I would at times retreat to the shade of my porch and wait there until the sun went down, so I could go breathe cool air and stare up at the stars in peace. As the months went on and summer crumpled up into the past, sunlight grew rarer, and I realized that winter would bring the opposite problem. By late December,...

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