Not only is
today Martin Luther King Jr. day, but it’s also time for my regularly scheduled
Writing Prod. So let’s just go ahead and combine the two and see how that turns
out.
This
particular prompt is called . . .
Ph-ph-phrases! The idea is to talk an old saying of some sort and turn it into
a story. Out of deference to Mr. King, I will take one of his memorable
statements and go from there.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
The
Dream
If ever
there was a thing more destructive to men’s souls than a civil war, Aubrey
couldn’t think of what it would be. Countrymen fighting against their neighbors
and even family fighting against one another. In the end, the result was an
oppressive system put into place to insure that there would not be another war.
A dark, hateful set of rules enforced by emotionless robots that had turned
everyone in the country into slaves for the government.
Then the
dreams began. Aubrey walked the streets of the city, lighting up the
neighborhoods as she passed through them. They grew more numerous and stronger
in their intensity until she realized that they were more than mere dreams.
They were a call for her to take to the streets of the nation and dispel the
darkness one hopeful act at a time. No bloody revolution would work against the
steel keepers they had made for themselves. She would have to start a war of
love and light.
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