![]() ![]() “Ruby, what does the future look like?” Nico asked. ― Alexandra Bracken, quote from In The Afterlight The only one they'll use to tell our story.” ![]() It is the button that should never have been pushed, the door that shouldn't have opened, the dried blood that couldn't be washed away. I see it in the face of a broken compass, feel it in the numbing grip of grief. The color of Chubs's hair, Liam's bruises, Zu's eyes.īlack is a promise of tomorrow, bled dry from lies and hate. It is the barrel of a new gun, leveled at your heart. A forgotten night sky broken up by faded stars. Black is the mud, the lidless eye watching your every breath, the low vibrations of the fence that stretches up to tear at the sky. ![]() It is a uniform stretched over the broad shoulders of an angry young man. The heaviest hour of night-the one that traps you in your bunk, suffocating in another nightmare. “Black is the color that is no color at all.īlack is the color of a child's still, empty bedroom. ![]()
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