Lost in the Ocean of Night

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Lost in the Ocean of Night

By Ardath Rekha

Synopsis: This is my response to Ally’s 100-word Drabble Challenge. It also owes a huge debt to Cinnabari and her magnificent piece, “Luxuries.” (If you haven’t read it, you must. You MUST!)

Category: Fan Fiction

Series: None

Rating: T

Orientation: Gen

Pairings: None

Warning: Death

Number of Chapters: 1

Net Word Count: 100

Total Word Count: 369

Story Length: Flash Fiction

First Posted: June 27, 2003

Last Updated: June 27, 2003

Status: Complete

The characters and events of Pitch Black are © 2000 USA Films, Gramercy Pictures, and Interscope Communications; Directed by David Twohy; Screenplay by Ken and Jim Wheat and David Twohy; Story by Ken and Jim Wheat; Produced by Tom Engelman. This work of fan fiction is a transformative work for entertainment purposes only, with no claims on, nor intent to infringe upon, the rights of the parties listed above. All additional characters and situations are the creation of, and remain the property of, Ardath Rekha. eBook design and cover art by LaraRebooted, using graphics provided by PngWing, the Windsong font from Font Meme, and background graphics © 1998 Noel Mollon, adapted and licensed via Teri Williams Carnright from the now-retired Fantasyland Graphics site (c. 2003). This eBook may not be sold or advertised for sale. If you are a copyright holder of any of the referenced works, and believe that part or all of this eBook exceeds fair use practices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, please contact Ardath Rekha.

Rev. 2022.10.09

Lost in the Ocean of Night

A vast, starlit ocean surrounded him.

He wondered what it had been like, ages back, to gaze up at the sky and think one was seeing all the stars, not knowing that the heavens were so full, so jeweled, so…

…holy.

The other two were afraid. The girl was terrified, and the man, for all his protestations that he knew what God had planned for him, was as well. The food was gone. The water, gone. And the glittering ocean before them was unending still.

Imam Abu Al Walid, though, smiled, closed his eyes, and gave himself over to heaven.

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