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Lights Out

2/9/2018

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The day came when the fire finally went out. They were cold after that.  And it was dark. The people wandered through the caves, bumping into each other and apologizing. They were used to eating only canned food by then, but now they didn’t even get to choose. When they got hungry each person took a can and opened it with their personal can opener. Yuck, someone might say, peaches. Someone else would have Spaghettios. Or cold soup. Or broth. They figured it balanced out, nutrition-wise.

The cold was harder to fix. People started paring up, though again, the selection was random.  John thought the body beside his was Mabel, but when he realized it was Sam he didn’t mind. Sam turned out to be warmer than Mabel. All that chest hair.

At night – which was always – they told stories.  The Day the Sun Died was popular, but so was Adventures in Toe Stubbing.  It didn’t really matter. They all knew they didn’t have much time.

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    carolyn O'Doherty

    When the muses refuse to come out and play, free writes are one strategy to try and trick them into coming back. Sometimes I use prompts, sometimes I just start putting words down on a page. The short pieces posted here are some of my favorites and, yeah, I spent way too much time finding photos to go with them. Shout out to pixabay, openphoto, and stocksnap.io for their huge array of copywrite free images.

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