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the brightest light.

a novel by james f.i. atwell

By james atwellPublished 4 years ago Updated 4 years ago 9 min read

in a society of the future, in the year 2779 called Earthilia, the whole world is subdued by the power of a green light. this mysterious light, gives power to many things.

the people of this land, marvel to the light, which was actually trapping them into this strange trance. the world was never the same again.

but this is in the future.

i was travelling home one night, in my toyota 1998, when i first saw it. it was a light like i have never seen before, and for some reason it seem to call to me, whatever it was, as i made my way toward my hotel.

it was a cloudy day in the city that i arrived in. ''st louis''. i parked my car next to a cafe', locked my door and proceeded inside the coffee shop. as i pulled the door,

i sat down in the cafe' and began pulling out my laptop to start some writing and investment work. as my coffee arrived, with much of the croissant i ordered with it. i opened the draft that i was working on, for a book i intended to publish.

''thanks'' i said. as the waitress was leaving, the old lady with the bushy hair, white and with a hunch, enter the coffee shop and sat across from me.

''you have seen the light'' she said mysteriously. i spurred the coffee and looked at her in confusion. ''ma'm, do i know you?'' ''you have seen the light. i saw you looking at the light. it's calling to you, the light.''

i began to take away my things, being not confrontational. maybe the lady just wanted the table and i wanted to give it to her. but it was not what she wanted. ''you have to go to the city of the green light and spent the light. only then we will be free. '' ''lady wait'' i said said after she drank the full cup of my coffee. she stared at me one second, and vomited the next. she then rushed out of the store. ''save our souls!'' she cried out.

she ran out of the store and left me in shambles. ''we're sorry for the incovenience sir. would you like a new coffee?'' she asked.

''yes please...to take away'' i paid at the register and took my suitcase and laptop making my way outside as i paid for the new coffee. ''caramel macchiato with almond milk'' and proceeded to leave the store. the lady was now far gone and was running away talking to herself, angrily. i thought she probably had some kind of condition, but i didn't bother to think about it too much, i didn't want to be bothered. i entered my car and proceeded back in the store to grab my plug, which i left, but the lady placed the close sign and it was impossible to get back in. ''what now?'' i was confused. i proceeded to get in my car ,upset about what happened, and thinking about the lady and the green light. ''how stranger could this day be?'' i turned the key and it began making a stuttering noise. i knew what that meant. i looked on my cellphone and saw that the hotel wasn't so far so i just parked it and began making my way toward the place i was meant to go, bringing both my briefcase with the laptop and the suitcase, closing the door and making my way toward the hotel, just a few blocks ahead.

as i got closer and closer to the hotel, i felt myself light. was it the pockets, or something else? i stopped in a store, called jiminy electronics'' which could probably signify a music store or something of the likes. i was going to go inside to grab but before i entered i felt my pockets: they felt empty. ''don't tell me this is happening. ''i scrambled to reach in my pockets, confused, uncertain about where my key would have been, but was lucky to find it on the floor. but there was something about the key this time that felt different. it seemed to be moved by the wind. or something else. i finally was able to grab it and take it in my hand. i proceeded back to the electronic store, to grab a charger for it, but was somehow blocked by something, like an invisible wall preventing me from reaching further. ''what is going on here?'' i kept asking myself. i wasn't sure if it was fear or something else, but i couldn't see anything blocking me. i reached my hand, and it seemed as if it was skeletal when i reached across it, but it was normal as soon as i took it back in. ''that's it. '' i said to myself ''i'm hallucinating. that can be the only explanation. i proceeded back to the car, and sat down in the front trying to think what in the world was happening to me: was there something in the coffee or was it just a figment of imagination from what i heard the lady saying about the green light?

''the green light. '' i looked up and i could still see it. but it seems like no one else was bothered by it. everyone in this city, was just going about their own way ignoring what was going on. i slowly slided the window as someone was passing by and asked if they seen the green light. he looked me as if i was some sort of nut and kept going his way. ''was i the only one who could see it?'' i thought to myself. i proceeded to turn on the car and go about against all odds toward the hotel: perhaps i was tired and i really needed the rest after all the driving.

i pressed on the pedal. i shifted the gear and accellerated. with the power of music and energy flowing trough my body, i raced like a hundred miles per hour, and close my eyes.

and then Darkness.

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CHAPTER II:

the dreamstate.

i drove across the wall.

and then i fell asleep.

i woke up in the same car, except, it was so different and everything was different. everything around me was dark and empty and void.

i walked out of the car still feeling a bit odd.

''did i cross the wall?'' i thought as i got out of the car. my legs felt different and so did my body. i wasn't sure what was going on.

i looked at the window. it was almost crushed in, as if i crashed against a literal wall. but i didn't, for some reason, feel the aftermath.

i got myself out of the car and stood up. i looked back inside but for some reason i couldn't. i looked at my hands, but there was no blood or fragments, rather they were normal and seemed normal. i looked at my shoes and they were also fine. i looked at myself, in the mirror of the car, and was shocked to see that my face was also fully intact. but what surprised me the most was that, there wasn't any body inside the car which otherwise be injured or dead, like what would happen if i actually had a crash, but it was empty and only an airbag filled the old car front. i walked around to assess the damage, but then i noticed the light again.

it was standing up halfway across from my view, floating above like a lightning ball ready to explode with full power. ''what is going on?'' i asked myself as i followed the strange globe of light.

the light was not the same as i saw up there but it was much different. i followed it like a child follows a candy, trough an alleyway with balconies and garbage bins. as i followed the light i could see a homeless man looking at me with a strange sight.

''boy, what are you looking at?'' he said as i kept following the green light. but i didn't answer. for some reason i was in trance, hypnotized, by this great sight. soon enough i could see him following me for some reason.

''where are you going?'' he kept asking. he started following me leaving the stuff behind. soon enough i could see other people coming trough the alleyway, either thieves or criminals or also bums, following in the same direction.

''you're in the wrong part of town!''said one as he grabbed me. he then scalded himself for whatever reason, but i kept on going. he took a knife and try to threaten me, but as he touched me his hand passed trough.

''it can't be. '' he said. ''what are you?''

''i'm james. and i'm following the green light. ''

''what green light?''

''he means the stoplight?''

''no...is another light. ''

''let's follow him'' but as they began to follow me something odd happened.

and then as one of them said that, they began to tip tap slowly in my direction.

i began to walk faster, and faster, and even more faster.

eventually i could feel myself being lighter than before, with a strenght i never had before and before long i could feel myself levitating toward the sky. a hand reached for me from below, and got captured as i proceeded to fly upward and out toward this great evanescence.

eventually clouds started to form over. i kept looking at the symbol, which was a glowing green diamond over me, illuminating my entire body,

and then the strangest thing happened. as i looked up to the bright land, standing right above i could feel myself levitating and then slowly flying upward into the sky leaving behind buildings and the city of st louis and the traffic and the city and the buildings and towers, and even the people looking at me with strange wonder.

but i was not the only one.

many thousand more were levitating together with me. and many other more to this major green light in the sky and each and everyone of them,

having a diamond light over their head, we were headed toward the universe.

what mysteries would await us as we flew toward the sky,

reaching the eventual universe and clima?

it was going to be an adventure.

but what would be of the people left behind in this strange set of events?

we would have found sooner or later.

to be continued....

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premise(to come!)

the Kingdom of the Green Light.

i have woken up on a place away from my world. i looked up still bedazzled and the green dot of light was still upon me, and it seemed to be following me everywhere i went. i was at the edge of a magnificent city, from what i could see from afar.

there were tall buildings in the distance but not buildings such as earth buildings but pointy towers and with diamonds on top of them, buildings made of quarts and gold.

then people around me started to wake up...we were in a strange world and it was about to become even more mysterious and fascinating.

''wake up wake up. '' said a voice from over the sky.

we all woke up to see the world around us. we were all changed, and we were all transformed. ''welcome to the supper of the lamb'' said a person that was right standing over my head. it was a man with curly hair wearing a tunic over his entire body.

''i am the i-mahdi.'' he said before i could say anything. ''hope you had a safe trip. welcome everyone.'' i got up to check around myself. there was actually no one there, but an actual illusion.''you're all part of this great plan. i have called you here in attendance of the supper. please follow me into the city of the green light and i'll give you each of you what you need.

we began walking, and for some reason i was the closest to this mysterious figure.

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