In Darkness

Fact (riiiiight)
Fiction

You make up your own comments, I’m just pointing it out.

I work with a great bunch of people. Really… no sarcasm intended.

But seeing as how I’m on the road 50% of the time and totally apathetic and aloof 100% of the time, I was utterly shocked when an announcement went out about a wedding shower for a coworker. Shocked, I say! Not because I didn’t know she was seeing anyone, but because up until that moment I thought she was a lesbian.

I want an explanation and I want it NOW.

I’m the black guy wearing black jeans, black sunglasses, and a dark colored shirt. If I’m wearing an undershirt, it’s black.
Jacket? Dark gray. Or black.
Black shoes, black socks, and a black backpack on my back.
Luggage? Black.
And to help identify my luggage on the baggage carousel, I have a ribbon tied around the handle.
What color is the ribbon?

Pink.

Shut up.

As I’m working on ideas for the next December story, it occurred to me that most of what I am trying to do hinges on a fact that you, as readers, are not yet aware. It was going to be mentioned in “Captive Souls” and fully explored in a follow-up story, but since Captive Soulsprobably won’t be finished I’m kind of at a loss for what to do. I really don’t want to write a “story-before-the-story” just to set something up for the next major work… so I think I’ll just come out and TELL you so that I can move on past this hurdle.

So here it is:

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