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Weekly Contest #359
Keep me in the Dark 5:50am I lay awake, counting down the minutes. It was dark. It was always dark. Ever since the blackout, everything was dark. My breath was warm against the pillow, and my eyes hurt from trying to adjust to a light that was never there. That would never arrive. It had been months, maybe years, since I had seen light. It wasn’t that there was no light; it’s just, what lay waiting in the light was so much worse. I had heard stories growing up of children whose glowing toys stood to attention, guarding them against the terro...
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