Black Elevator

from Grey Eye (old version) by Steve Yannacone

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The necklace snaps and Elijah’s decent immediately slows as if buffeted by a strong opposing wind. His legs feel light as he touches down upon a seemingly limitless expanse of darkness. A White light hangs in the distance, and Elijah begins to crawl towards it cautiously, putting his arms out to make sure something really is there, as the smallest of movements echo across the invisible floor. Wet vines begin to slither over his hands, as with each push forward he falls downward in sporadic intervals, as if tethered to a broken elevator catching on rusted notches in the darkness. He falls further and further from the white light above until it is totally obscured by a sheet of darkness. The final drop brings him to a wall, made visible only because of the white paint thrown haphazardly onto it in one big splotch. Stepping close to the white splotch until it is nearly all he can see, the world seems to turn counterclockwise until he pushes into the paint and stumbles through to the other side.

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[Elijah]

Eclipsed by dark,
Infinite pool.
I search for a star,
And I know, I will fail.

Falling deeper,
Screeching quiet.
White splotch on a wall,
And the world
Turns me inside.

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from Grey Eye (old version), released July 9, 2017

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