City Lights on a Foggy Night (413 hits)
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Submitted by cyberpenguin (View user info) at 2007-06-02 04:00:46 EDT
The December sun took its bow, the colors marched across the sky and off the horizon. Shades of the night chased every remnant of the sun and marked out its triumphant return as the true master of the sky. The half moon rises to symbolize this victory, with it fleets of stars dance jubilantly giving a surreal glow to the scene overhead. But all was not as well as it appeared, as over the hills and the valleys an armada of gray swept in to terrorize the newfound kingdom of the night.
A city below was doomed to be caught in the fray and frantically set up its own illuminating glow to defend against the hours long after the setting sun. The gray menace made it's final dive and overwhelmed it all, from the army of street lights to the lone half moon, all had disappeared into a flowing sea of gray. The stars had suffocated, now unable to dance across the sky. The city had sunken off into the abyss, no longer to wake from the rising sun. Hope had vanished, not even that could escape the iron grip of this gray invader.
Above it all sat the bright moon, still on his throne he gazed downwards to the lost city and now fixed upon the sea that took its place, terrified as all that remained of the magnificent buildings and streets was an orange glow that had infected the sea. But yet there was relief in his eye, for all had not been lost forever, the glow still lived and with it the city had survived the onslaught. Down beneath the fog the people trapped by this occupation looked upwards, forlorn at the loss of their moon and stars. But yet they also were not lost forever as a faint white glow was emitted amongst the dark menacing gray.
With that a new hope had awakened, for though the harmony of the two entities had been smothered by this invasion of gray they were not altogether lost. And with but the slightest glimmer of a hope a great thing can happen, the mere knowledge of life and with that joy on the other side of the gray wall had kept both the moon and the city at ease. They knew it wasn't a quick fix or a solution, but the brief gaps in the cloud that glimmered in yet more light to the other side was enough to keep them going. Knowing it would finally disappear and the harmony would finally return to the shadow of the night, both with the stars dancing around the moon and the glimmering headlights of the last car left on the road.
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Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2008-01-23 18:12:19 EST (#)
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Submitted by cyberpenguin (user info) at 2007-06-16 03:14:41 EDT (#)
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Hey, thanks for the feedback and the welcome. I'll try and become more active and hopefully get some more stuff up here.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-06-04 21:43:48 EDT (#)
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Submitted by LongestPants (user info) at 2007-06-04 20:33:29 EDT (#)
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Nicely done.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-06-04 15:55:04 EDT (#)
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cool picture AND username
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2007-06-03 16:43:08 EDT (#)
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This couldn't hold my attention, and I'm easily amused.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-06-02 16:18:58 EDT (#)
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Oh, you're new here. Welcome.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-06-02 16:18:34 EDT (#)
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You kind of trailed off, but I liked it.
Submitted by ih8u2man (user info) at 2007-06-02 12:57:46 EDT (#)
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Nice work.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-06-02 08:42:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-06-02 08:40:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2007-06-02 04:41:56 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Dexter-Brown (user info) at 2007-06-02 04:28:45 EDT (#)
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