"Oh, you're back again," The darkness crooned.
The smile in its voice was palpable,
"How long have you come to play?"
Vidya's arms outstretched before her as she stumbled into the blackness -- feeling for the walls of the familiar inky coridor.
Almost instantaneously, pools of light flooded around her, illuminating the thick muddy walls and swamp-like paths. Everything she touched began to gl...
The yellowness leaked into the corners of the crypt, signaling that it was Above day.
I stretched myself in preparation, giddy with possibility.
Perhaps today would be the day.
Perhaps I wouldn't be alone anymore.
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_2..._
_1..._
I lurched my body into yellow, pushing up and against the sand as it flooded around me. There was a slight resistance before the sudden break, and then I was...
I waited for you
I walked for miles with worn ankles and shoulders burnt from the sun's gravelly rays
I waded in the shallowest grave of discernment
I struck matches against my fingernails
and drowned in solitude
I waited for you
pretending to be lighter than I am
more gawdy
more willing
pretending to know love like tendrils of muscle
the tempered underbelly
pretending to have feeling
I waited fo...