Shadows and Light

by Ana Cristina

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The tuna fish sandwich fell to the ground, unnoticed by Janine. Unnoticed, too, was the squirrel who boldly skittered up and began nibbling on the crust, twitching his button nose curiously at the woman.

Janine only had eyes for her shadow.

You see, her shadow was doing something quite strange at the moment. Something Janine herself was definitely not doing. Slowly, it stood up and beckoned Janine to follow it. She sat looking down at her hands, which lay open in her lap, and gaped, dumbfounded.

“You want me to follow you…?” she breathed, instantly feeling stupid for talking to her own shadow. But her surprise only deepened when the shadow began beckoning even more energetically.

“Oh my God. That’s it. I’m going insane. I’m actually going insane! I knew I should have taken that two week vacation, but no, the Big Head Honcho insisted -“

Janine’s words were immediately cut off mid-rant when the shadow decided to do something even wilder to get her attention; it flew up into the sunlit sky.

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Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Shadows and Light

    Punkin's Buddy Icon Punkin

    Posted about 1 month ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Interesting story. Very open to sequel.

  2. Shadows and Light

    Bag of Sand's Buddy Icon Bag of Sand

    Posted about 1 month ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Nice ending. It definitely piques my attention as to what, exactly, is going on.

    Nice work.

  3. Shadows and Light

    Mistress Elsha Hawk's Buddy Icon Mistress Elsha Hawk

    Posted about 1 month ago

    well, that shadow has something important up its “sleeve”. (this is very different from the Death pieces you have been working on) Great sequel! I hope this keeps going!

  4. Shadows and Light

    THX 0477's Buddy Icon THX 0477

    Posted about 1 month ago

    Little flavor of ‘Peter Pan’ with the unruly shadow, but also a balance between her incredulity and the bizarre reality of the situation. I may have to dub you the new Queen of Playing Nice with Others.

  5. Shadows and Light

    kwatz's Buddy Icon kwatz

    Posted about 1 month ago

    A sequel, written it has.

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