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core that this wasn't his imagination. Something was out there.
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SandShadow © 1998
By
Suzanne Nikolaisen
His nights had been filled with a darkness so vast during the past
month that it

reminded him of the nightmares he had forgotten about from his childhood. The

dreams had been filled with such frightening images, that nightfall had been a
time he

had dreaded as a child. Now Michael was beginning to wish that he didn't live
alone as

an adult. The dream images were becoming more real to him, than the kitchen
in which

he was standing. He was getting jumpy.

The sunset was casting an ethereal glow over Cairo, pale yellows and
oranges

faded into the darkening lavender sky. Night was coming, and the last rays of
sunlight

seemed to be rushing to escape the darkness. Michael had just finished
washing an

apple and water was rushing into the sink. He turned

the water off and searched the twilight horizon for an answer. Was there
something

really out there?

The twilight outside the kitchen window seemed to whisper to him and
beckon.

He could almost hear words, but they fell away like dying butterflies, into
the shadows

before he could catch them. There was nothing out there that was unusual.
The

skyline of Cairo sparkled as darkness engulfed the city. He shrugged, but
decided to