dark | side | thursday | twentynine



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dark | side | thursday | twentynine

And so, the dance, started again.

He typed, enjoying the gentle click, click, click as the square, black plastic buttons, with glowing white characters, gently depressed under his flying fingers. His wrist resting on the clean aluminium skin of the machine on which he was writing. The screen glowing white, nothing  to see but the words appearing, one after the other, in the old school font that was a soft spot of his. When he did this, he felt at home, comforted somehow. For now.

And by his side, the battered old journal, bound tight, its secrets still shut away inside a leather thong.  The leather, a base and wanton challenge to the gleaming aluminium usurper.

He looked up from the shallow laminated wooden desk on which he was typing. His eyes, distracted for a moment by the red woven plaid thrown over the sofa, looked towards the windows. Distracted by memories, and almost memories, of things that had happened, that were going to happen, and those that didn’t. His view of the empty industrial landscape outside interrupted by the thin plastic gauze that had been applied to the window, ostensibly in the interests of privacy. A wry almost smile formed on his lips. The rain forever lashing against the windows, a susurration of sensation that stealthily stole his attention.

He remembered the origin of the man in black. The one who always wore black, the man in the song. The Byronic anti-hero. The song inspired by pictures on a domed roof. In the entrance hall of a municipal station that had been in a state of constant renovation. Until the time came for it to finish. In another world.

He continued to type.

The words kept appearing. He had no idea how or why. Pretty much how he felt about it all. Type. And see.

The man in black, his narrator, had travelled far, in a circle. And yet, only now had his journey really started. He knew that many many roads lay ahead of him, roads covered in ice and snow, roads ahead that held promise. And he knew that promise, that fake premise, would be his undoing.

He thought of her, the woman that had been the nemesis of his man in black. The conflicting and contrasting emotions, the walk in the soft light that led to that terrible hole in the ground. The loss and despair. The search, the seeking, and the resolution.

The cold clinical way in which the man in black and that woman had been conjoined in a convergence of chaos in a white tiled hospital room.

Images of that square, empty of people, the tower, the climb to the top. The despair.

He stood up. The keyboard stilled for a moment. He looked through the rain, at the chimney stack, a relic of times gone by. Industrial, and fanciful.

The rain smeared across the dirty exterior of the window.

And a tear spilled from his eye as he remembered. It all.


twentynine | fiftytwo

28 thoughts on “dark | side | thursday | twentynine

  1. oooo another great addition to the story! I can’t wait for the next installment. “And by his side, the battered old journal, bound tight, its secrets still shut away inside a leather thong. The leather, a base and wanton challenge to the gleaming aluminium usurper.” — wonderful description here and it says so much about the writer.

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  2. Ah… we often as writers think we can get into the heads of the characters we create. Suffocated in our dreams when we can’t separate the words from the paper. Or when the sentences seem to just write themselves.
    Interesting plot twist. 😉

    Not sure If the P/M thing will work for me… just a tad darker than where I want to go for the moment. But I’ve got another BeeBee in the wings… Nothing to do with the man in black… just well someone is …missing.
    Here it is: Misbegotten?

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  3. Still with you Andy, doing catch up…….it’s very dark inside your head.
    It’s dark inside mine too, a big, dark and empty space. I need to get out more.
    ….and to write some more, but it’s dark and empty….just press the keys he says…

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    1. Kindred spirits, hope your trip to India, probably weeks ago now, went well, and have missed exchanging views with you, so welcome back…and probably it’s me that’s been ‘away’…dark doings indeed

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