Bridge into Darkness

Bridge into Darkness

April 24, 2020 Off By Lisa

The bridge ended exactly where the trees began.

Although a few splashes of sunlight still played at the very edge of the woods, it was clear that these would be the last traces of light to grace the afternoon. Immediate darkness waited just beyond the final board, and yet I did not want to return to where I had been.

The only way through is straight ahead, I told myself and began to press forward, pushing my way past bushes and branches, pulling aside vines to see if I might find a path to follow or some evidence of a trail marked by another soul passing here ahead of me to show the way clear.

But no guidance presented and no trail emerged.

I continued long into the deep of the woods, my forward efforts at last rewarded with a small patch of sunlight permitted to penetrate the dark through a slight opening in the canopy above, a beauty I would not have known had I not taken the first step off the end of the bridge.

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Written in response to this week’s Six Sentence Stories challenge, hosted by Girlie on the Edge. Each week writers are challenged to spin a tale in just six sentences. 

This week’s cue is BRIDGE.

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