Angel Labove

In My Solitude

We never knew it would come to this, but someone should have guessed. When the experiments began and the news reports hardly mentioned a thing about them, we all should have asked more questions. Every incidence of strangeness started shortly thereafter, when the government sanctioned those strange light shows in the sky – the ones that seemed to slice through the very fabric of our world and let something twisted and wrong creep into our reality. I remember what it felt like when I first saw those lights; stomach dropping into my socks, and a shiver of dread from head to toe. Strangely, I don’t remember saying anything to anyone about how they made me feel when I was looking up at them, not even Sam knew. Even with each shocking crack of amber light striking anticipatory fear deeper into my heart, I kept my silence – and so did everyone else. “Best to just not look at them,” that’s what I told myself.