Time for another Friday Fictioneers entry. The challenge is to write 100 words based on a weekly photo prompt chosen by our host Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Check out her blog for more information by clicking here. Thank you to all who take the time to read, like or comment.
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Perception
“Nothing wrong with the dark,” he would say, “It’s only your perception that scares you. Ain’t nothing gonna hurt you in the dark that won’t also hurt you in broad daylight.”
He was right of course: light, dark, good, bad, right, wrong. It all comes down to perception. Yet somehow I’m still afraid. Artificial light only makes the darkness fight harder. It claws at me, groping for its likeness in the pit of my soul.
How then, am I to be perceived?
I gaze out across the electric haze of the city. A million other people afraid of the dark.
Thomas Charles Henry 
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