/lit/ - Literature

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While being where the brights lights near the ceiling and past the ladder I froze still, at least for a minute as far as I can tell, to hear the sudden laughs down below.

"What happened?" I asked aloud though I knew there was no one to answer.

Wishing to know the heaven below, I tried vainly to stretch myself enough to caught at least a glimpse of what was happening down there, take a look to the fancy dresses and bright colours, and happiness in general to pretend or deceive myself of whatever it is that people see here.

The laughter grew bigger and I could hear hands clapping here and there behind the noisy laughter. Maybe someone was telling funny jokes? I wished I could hear them too but from where I stood the voice of the speaker was faint enough to be covered by the constant talk and laughs of the audience.

"You're done. Come back" said a voice in my left ear. The lights grew dim and I was immediatly in absolute darkness. Somehow I could see myself, despite of being no lights around me I found myself in the very center of a dim circle of white light.

As soon as the lights went off I tried to get up, and I tried for several mintues, which I couldn't do no matter how hard I tried. Yet, my shadow now projected over the white circle and in front of me moved as I wanted to and folowed each one of the moves of my still body.

I spent some time playing with my shadow in this curious game I just discovered. I'm unaware of how it happened and because of that I was very impressed and even if scared, probably a bit amused.

But I'm afraid that it was harder to move as the time passed by. My shadow still moved, but only after a great effort like if I were to experience the effort lifting weights by merely moving my arm.

After a while, all control was lost. I could move my body, or what seemed more like watching my body move, while my shadow stood still.

After walking aimlessly for a while like re-discovering my body I heard someone call for me, angrily, as it seems they have been doing it for a while.
"I should go back to work" I thought,
I should have went way before but I lost the sense of time. If I could have moved by my own will I probably wouldn't be here, but now, now I was just dancing shadow on the high bridge.

The light below shone as never, and I remember well how beautiful it was since the calls for the center of my being came from the very darkness where the clapping and laughs. The next thing I new was that I was staring at the ground, which came closer and closer for a time that could have been an eternity.

Nobody noticed, and when they did everybody laughed. He fell, his brain spilled all over the black stage like a woman's bleeding sea.

My drink was warm by then, the curtains closed and everybody clappped.
That was another night in the celebricity.