I’m grateful beyond words to Spillwords Press for including my story “Two Point Creek” among their Featured Posts, and would love to hear your thoughts on it. The link to the story is https://spillwords.com/two-point-creek/
Now to today’s poem!
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The lights are never off in that kingdom upon the hill
They shine everlasting over streets that cannot see them
and cry out for something more beyond a voice in the dark
speaking to a world that has long ceased listening
but waits for a reason to reach out to the horizon
and take back what the night stole
Still we grope in the dark for a handhold
as the cliff face crumbles away beneath us
but it’s a steel-sky morning that dawns this day over paradise
where something walks in shadow that will be seen
when the first rays of light spill over
into streets flooded by the ones in charge of changing the lightbulbs
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I want to thank once more everyone who has supported my writing so far. I hope this is the first of many stories to be published, and I’ll certainly keep trying my best to make that happen. Thank you (:
Cheers!
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The Light is On 
11 responses to “Lightbulbs”
Bright and Brilliant. No pun intended.
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Thank you! (:
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I enjoyed this!
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I’m glad you did! Cheers (:
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I loved your short story! So intense, and filled with grief. Really great job.
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Thanks so much Fatima (: cheers!
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Really well written. Help me learn this kind of writing
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Thank you! Honestly, I take so much inspiration from writers like Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft (though certainly not his beliefs), Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe… and more modern authors like Donna Tart, David Foster Wallace, Barbara Kingsolver… simply reading the work of the greats helps me with ideas and to develop style and themes.
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Thank you so much for this.
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I absolutely loved your story! Are you thinking of continuing it?
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Thank you Angie! I’m not sure, I hadn’t really thought about continuing it. If anything maybe I would write more of the backstory. Cheers (:
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