Write about light returning to a place that has been deprived of it for a long time, literally or figuratively.

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“The Light of Good” by Tanzaniyah Kash

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So many people are standing in a crowed room full of family and friends and still feel lonely. Especially when they truly need anyone to care. It's like having a dark shadow of separation and division that continues to haunt their path. In that moment they may need your time, money or great thoughts. But most times receiving only answers of promise. A promise that you know you will not keep- you give to them anyway. For it is always better to leave a person with a yes or a no then a wishful hopeful maybe. Living in this system we learned to ...

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“SAD / happy” by Virginia Berry

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I’ve moved a couch next to the brightest window in my home, south facing, with views of the Southside Hills, an enormous spruce, and the Waterford River Valley. It has taken me a year in this home to realize this might work. At least it’s warm when the sun shines in; an excellent spot for a nap, to read, or to generally zone the ‘f’ out. I feed the birds, and find observing their activity and song through my window, comforting during the cold months on white sky, prison island. There are days I want to stay in bed all day and wait for my b...

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“Out of the darkness in to the light” by Rebecca Stack

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`How did she become this empty shell of a person, when exactly did she lose herself?’ She can’t remember a time the knots in her stomach weren’t there. This horrible feeling, eating away at her from the inside out, uneasiness in the pit of her stomach, she isn’t able to pinpoint where or when this originated. It seemed as if she just woke to find it there one day embedded deep within. Although for the life of her she can’t remember exactly when it appeared, but whenever it was, of one thing she was certain it has remaine...

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“Come into the Light” by Robin Davidson

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Kyra swallowed a mouthful of coffee, hiding her grimace with the newspaper. Why anyone drinks this stuff when it tastes like soap and burnt toast was beyond her. Still, she would make herself finish the entire cup; it’s what an adult would do. And Kyra, having turned 14 a week ago and due for her freshman year of high school in exactly one month, decided that the only way to prepare herself for the next stage in life was to do everything her mother (a real adult) would do. &nb...

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“Evian” by Alison Bowman

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EVIAN There was always cloud. It was low and sometimes you could imagine you could reach up and brush your fingertips through the underside of it, but even if you could, it would only waft briefly. It would never go. Olders told us stories of days when the sky was high and blue and the clouds were like the sheep on the hill, but fluffy and white, not matted and dirty as they are. Frankly, none of us really believed those tales. Some Young’Uns said they had seen pictures with blue skies but pictures were fa...

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“The Light That Is Given” by Garrett Wright

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Sam and Mia stood in the middle of the living room. They were both silent. Mia’s arms had been crossed since she walked in and Sam looked around the room for a distraction - anything that would allow him to not have to look Mia in the eyes. “The plants are dead.” “Yes, Sam. They’ve been dead for a while.” Sam gently rubbed one of the dried-up leaves and watched as it crumbled between his fingers. The debris fell to the floor, some of it even got on his socks, but he didn’t care. When did he ever care about anything? Not for a while,...

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“Finding the Light” by Erin Cuellar

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Depression is like a black hole; it sucks in everything and leaves her in the dark. She sits there in this place that she can’t escape from, the gravity is too heavy to fight. Sometimes the bought will last for a few weeks, sometimes a few months. There is not a timeline for her to plan for, other than she must keep pushing through. That’s what her friends will say. That’s what the doctors will say. That’s what society will say. It’s very comparable to winter in the Midwest. Will she get a day of sunshine here or there? Yes, but ultimately, ...

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“Stop Her” by Amanda Galeno

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She opened her eyes and saw that she was still in the garage. She sat up and looked around. It must not have worked. Tears filled her eyes and she put her head in her hands; utterly defeated. She was still on the 18-inch air mattress she bought online. She had done her hair and makeup before she laid her head down. She looked beautiful. Her green eyes allowed the tears to fall and she sobbed in silence looking around her garage. Why didn’t it work? “You’re here,” he said from the corner behind her. ...

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“The wait ” by Farida Sherif

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Light snores of my sister, laying on her bed, filled the stoic silence. Her body snuggled up like a shell, clutching the pillow with both fists. Getting up from my own, I walked around the house to pass the time. Leaning against the door of the adjacent room, I watched my parents holding each other, their eyes closed shut. Something inside me hoped as I walked away that they felt as peaceful as they looked. The house was still hot even with all the windows open, the air still and slow. My feet carried me to the front porch, the lig...

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“The House Full Of Light” by Jules Smith

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Lovebug adults are attracted to the light and to light-coloured surfaces, especially if they are freshly painted, but adults congregate almost anywhere apparently reacting to the effects of sunlight. Lovebugs help the environment when they are in their immature stage as they are attracted to flowers and are good pollinators. I only went out of curiosity more than anything. I didn’t go expecting; I never do. Besides, there couldn’t be much in a field stretching out further than my eye could see. In fact, I couldn’t even tell yo...

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“Terra-system 14” by Coltrane Rogers

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Submerged beneath an icy depth, head in an oak whisky barrel, he rose and flicked back his hair and looked to the sky. Fresh. Under the candour of stars.Have the constellations of this Terra-System been named, he wondered.A towel provided imbalance to his nude. Best to wash after travelling. Washes away fatigue. He picked up his white linens and pulled over his shirt and worked into a pair of loose-fitting trousers.His journal awaited his entry, resting on a wooden crate with the typographic: 3466e.Terra-system 0’s current fixture in time.He...

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“to my godparents ” by Rachel Lopez

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I was just 4 years old when I was living on the streets with my mother and two-year-old sister. I remember walking for hours in the dark street seeing nothing but street lights hundreds of feet away. People would think I was too young to understand but I knew exactly what was happening, there my mom was hopeless and alone, although she was never alone physically, I was always there; she never seemed to notice me. One day as we were near a freeway entrance this man pulled over on the side of the road and my mom so willingly and desperately wa...

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“The Village (Under the Canopy)” by LC Garnet

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Loud rustling and snapping of dried flora halted Chesa’s stride. Holding her breath, she lifted the firefly-filled cloth tied to a twig to look around the ominous dense jungle. “It’s probably a monkey.” Abel kept going. “There’s lots of them here.” “Or a kapre.” With feet glued to the ground, her chocolate brown eyes grew wide, darting from tree to tree, excited for a glimpse of this monster that petrified unruly children with the mere mention of its name. Reputed to be a big hairy man with chimpanzee arms, this creature lazed on a tree w...

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“Light Chasing” by Spruce Popsicle

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“Write about light returning to a place that has been deprived of it for a long time” Light Chasing I can still remember the day the light left. I was four years old. I was in the small oak tree in my back yard, holding onto my children’s book, flipping through the pages and looking at the pictures. I was too young to read yet, but I remember loving the pictures and trying to figure out the story. Then the shadow came, swallowing the great Aonani. Her light slowly left our town, then it was black. The screams started soon after. Today is...

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“The Solaxis Mist” by G Suzanne

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An immense rectangular prism, silver and featureless, perched on a cliff overlooking a tumbling river. The prism, called the Center for the Defense of Planet 808, glowed faintly in the growing light of the deeply golden horizon; the river reflected the bright windows of the towering white buildings on the far bank. On the face of the prism that looked away from the river and towards the promise of a rising sun, an invisible door slid open and a young woman emerged. Dressed in the charcoal uniform worn by the 808 Defense Force, dark hair...

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Write about light returning to a place that has been deprived of it for a long time, literally or figuratively.

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✍️ 89 stories

“The Light of Good” by Tanzaniyah Kash

“SAD / happy” by Virginia Berry

“Out of the darkness in to the light” by Rebecca Stack

“Come into the Light” by Robin Davidson

“Evian” by Alison Bowman

“The Light That Is Given” by Garrett Wright

“Finding the Light” by Erin Cuellar

“Stop Her” by Amanda Galeno

“The wait ” by Farida Sherif

“The House Full Of Light” by Jules Smith

“Terra-system 14” by Coltrane Rogers

“to my godparents ” by Rachel Lopez

“The Village (Under the Canopy)” by LC Garnet

“Light Chasing” by Spruce Popsicle

“The Solaxis Mist” by G Suzanne

🌟 Similar prompts

Set your story on a day when the sun never sets.

Write a story about an afternoon picnic gone wrong.

Write about a character who doesn’t want to go to sleep.

End your story with someone saying: “What a day.”

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