Three Stories for a Sleepless Night

s4ndor
3 min readDec 8, 2023
Created with DALL-E

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The young couple alone in a dimly lit room. She pulls him without doing anything concrete. In the meantime, she asks him repeatedly if he has taken the pill and how good it would be if he did, clearly implying but not saying that she means a performance-enhancing pill. He reluctants for a while, then takes the pill, but as he swallows and looks around, there is no one there with him. He is alone in the room, and the box of pills next to him reads “for schizophrenia”.

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“Alexa, what’s the secret to long life?” — the boy jokes with the intelligent assistant next to their bed as he waits for his girlfriend. After a few moments Alexa replies, “Answer ‘Thank you, I’m not thirsty.’” — he looks at the device in bewilderment, but before he can respond she slips into the room in a nice set and jumps straight to her friend. She starts flirting with him as they reminisce back and forth about how nice their new summer house is, how much she loves her car, and how much she loves the necklace she recently got. While she’s arrange on something next to them, she turns back with two glasses of wine in her hands and a femme fatale smile on her face and asks, “Shall we toast darling?” — her partner instinctively smiles and reaches for the glass, but at that moment shock comes over his face as he remembers what Alexa said a while ago and half…

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s4ndor

People think I am hiding in the darkness, however, the fact is I am the darkness, that one that can show you the light with full of colors.