It's been AGES since I've participated in the 100 Word Challenge over at Velvet Verbosity.  Actually, it's been a while since I've taken the time to write much fiction at all - including a novel I started last year.  Oy.

Anyhow.  This week's challenge: Darkness.  I've dusted off my writing brain to give it a shot.

Here it goes:

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I awoke gasping for air.  My eyes were slow to adjust to the darkness of my bedroom.  

Clarity set in.  It was the middle of the night.  I had been dreaming.  Of him.  Again.  He was right there.  It was as if the past few months had never happened.  As if I was in a world where he hadn’t died.

Each blink made the lingering image of him on the inside of my eyelids disappear a little more.  

I couldn’t let him go completely.  I shut my eyes tightly and tried to force myself back to sleep.  Back to him.

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