Write a story set in a world of darkness where light is suddenly discovered.

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“A Dream of Darkness” by Faith LeMone

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Some Days it’s hard to tell if I am awake, that I’m not still in a dream of darkness where I walk and talk the same but I feel that fuzzy little feeling. I’m completely in the moment, not thinking about the past or future, just listening to the now go by. In awakened reality it’s not so fuzzy and magical, it’s loud, stressed, and dark. I know I am awake because I can feel the weight of today on my chest, which is especially bad today. After all, today is a big one. I push the covers back, it’s warm today. I head to the kitchen, which i...

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“The Liberty Bike, A Cry for Freedom” by Ryan He

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6/14, 6/14I.The house is empty again. Everything is static, and I’m disappointed.Because if the cut-outs of bowls on the kitchen countertop started to move, it would prove that there is actually some real ghost haunting me these days, some real thing clenching my heart every time I hear the cicadas screech outside.The truth is I am afraid of summer.I am a coward.The piano bench creaks. I lodge my elbows onto the piano I hadn’t played in a year or two. In the reflection of the waxed wood I see my face. Then I look directly into the reflection...

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“Night and Diya” by Jamina Ferrell

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Isn't it beautiful our home, the night abyssIts darkness, its void, forever endlessThere are no lights or brightness. We see with auras and pulses. We, my people and I. enjoy the realm of silenceWe are the same, we are one, no violenceThere is no fight here, just quiet. We reveille in the void and thrive in it. Our purpose is to be in peace because we are darkness.Everything is coated in grey, black, dark blue in abundanceTonight, I roam the kingdom admiring the dark side of the moon There are no stars here. Th...

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“I Dream of Red” by Aubre Boose

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A new set of eyes would fix everything. A different pair of shoes could take him farther than the norm of a nearby coffee shop. A change of hands, fingers, and even his brain could work the pages of his half-empty notebook. “Nothing new,” he wrote on the top space before the vacant lines below. If words could spill from a cup, he’d been doing a horrible job at knocking the cup over. His head fizzed with nothing, and his nose cringed at the stench of cigarette smoke all around him. With a pencil on a blank page, his lips rolled against each o...

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“Oslo and Moore” by Dedric Simmons

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Within the watery world at a depth which penetrated little of any light stood therein brothers alike, not of blood, mucous creatures Oslo and Moore; two skulkers about the nighttime seafloor who journeyed west as their town’s women, children, and men began their midnight rest. They carried with them bright algae lanterns that lit the valley town and burned the black static of the ocean floor. As they walked they saw their footsteps get swallowed by the darkness and looked toward the town, which, at this distance, became a pale green dot that...

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“The Awakening of Setem-Ka” by Fabrizio Uffreduzzi

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1. The ancient sarcophagus sat in silence, bathed in the sterile glow of the museum's fluorescent lights. Suddenly, on the stroke of midnight under a full moon, Setem-ka's eyes snapped open, darting back and forth in confusion. “Where's the frigging lid?!” He said aloud, spitting a couple of loose teeth. "And where the fuzz am I?" he croaked, voice hoarse from centuries of disuse. Slowly, he sat up, taking in the alien sights around him - glass display cases, humming air vents, and glowing exit signs. Frowning, he ran his bandaged hand...

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“Shattered Cupid” by Lou Jayne

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Shattered Cupid I used to feel like a bright white fluffy cloud on a blue skied summers day. Now I’m just lost somewhere in the black mass of nighttime.Those summer days were the days, way back when I used to be the Cupid of my friends group. I was the one they came to for relationship advice, the one they always asked if I thought they had a chance with someone else. The matchmaker, the hopeless romantic, the one who always saw the good in love and all it had to bring. No matter what there was always a soulmate out there for everyone, and i...

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“Flicker of Dawn” by Jasmine Trivett

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It seemed the little town of Misery had been enveloped in its gloom of gray since the dusk of time. Of course, there had always been rumors of a mythical contrast, a dawn in the husky darkness. The stories of the spark always came from the ancient folk, who were deemed by many as too old to differentiate their ups from their downs.A town girl named Ebony Grimm shared this judgment of the fable spreaders. With pin straight hair so black it stood out in the everlasting darkness, she not only personified the drab shadows with her mood. Ebony ne...

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“The Dawn In The Abyss ” by Ryan Turberville

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The Dawn in the Abyss The world had always been dark. For as long as anyone could remember, the sky above was a void of impenetrable black, the earth beneath a terrain of deep shadows and unseen edges. In this place, sight was an alien concept. People moved by touch, sound, and memory, their lives a perpetual navigation of the unseen. Villages were collections of huddled huts bound together by taut ropes that served as guides. Families marked their homes with unique wind chimes, their soft tinkling a beacon for returning travelers. There wer...

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“So Shineth the Light” by Douglas W. Carr

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“So, you want me to apologize because they come to our house and ruin my day? They just like to create drama. I’m certain they do it intentionally to ruin my day. I won’t do it, I won’t apologize.” “Jack,” Claire interjected. “What?” “We go through this every Christmas night. We sit here and have the same conversation.” “Yeah, I know, and it needs to stop – I’m not doing this again.” “You say that every year. Only you can correct this. You’re letting them ruin your day and by association ruining my day – our day.” “I need to get away. I mea...

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“Back to Light” by Marcia H.

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For as long as Kodi could remember, the world had been cloaked in darkness. He and everyone else in the town lived their lives guided by the soft echoes of sound and the tender whisper of the chill of the wind on their faces. They built their homes with stones, wood and leaves they found by feel and told each other stories of what they imagined the world might look like if it was not shrouded in blackness. To them the darkness was their life, a constant unchanging and sometimes a confronting familiarity. Kodi was a curious child always...

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“Out of the Blue” by Burton Sage

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“I must admit it was better than I expected,” Jose said. “As a rule I have a low opinion of motivational speeches, but in the best tradition of turning lemons into lemonade, you took a real life problem and showed a way to make progress in solving it.” Amos Williams, a motivational speaker, sat with Warden Jose Garcia at the conference table in his office in the Lancaster Correctional facility northeast of LA. An unremarkable office, it had one desk for Jose, the conference table with half a dozen chairs, and a small credenza in back o...

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“In the Light of Darkness” by Lyla Grace

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Darkness. Perpetual, cold, unforgiving darkness. Luna had never known anything different. Everyone knew that the endless depths of uncertainty that lie beyond the darkness was not for them to find, and what was safest was living in the darkness. But the darkness made it impossible to live. Sure, one could physically survive, but living -truly living- was a sacrifice everyone had to make. Luna lay in her bed, the weight of her body and the indescribable pressure weighing her further and further into the mattress. She was engulfed ...

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“the Lightbringer” by Steven Sommer

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In a world where darkness loomed over everything, where the sun had never shone and the moon had never glowed, where the only illumination came from the occasional flicker of bioluminescent creatures, The people had lived in darkness for as long as anyone could remember, their only source of light coming from flickering torches and dim lanterns. Malin had always been fascinated by the mysteries of the world, and she spent countless hours exploring, searching for any clues that might shed light on the nature of the darkness that en...

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Write a story set in a world of darkness where light is suddenly discovered.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 44 stories

“A Dream of Darkness” by Faith LeMone

“The Liberty Bike, A Cry for Freedom” by Ryan He

“Night and Diya” by Jamina Ferrell

“I Dream of Red” by Aubre Boose

“Oslo and Moore” by Dedric Simmons

“The Awakening of Setem-Ka” by Fabrizio Uffreduzzi

“Shattered Cupid” by Lou Jayne

“Flicker of Dawn” by Jasmine Trivett

“The Dawn In The Abyss ” by Ryan Turberville

“So Shineth the Light” by Douglas W. Carr

“Back to Light” by Marcia H.

“Out of the Blue” by Burton Sage

“In the Light of Darkness” by Lyla Grace

“the Lightbringer” by Steven Sommer

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