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Weekly Contest #361
It clung to the heel of my boot for less than three seconds before the emergency lights flared to full intensity, erasing it from existence.By nightfall, the Department of Illumination had interviewed me twice, scanned my eyes for retinal contamination, and reminded me that shadows were impossible. I signed the report anyway. Everyone in Lumen knew the first law: Where light exists, life survives. Where darkness and shadows linger, death remembers. The city had followed that law for three hundred and twelve years. Every rooftop carried flood...
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