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Challenge entry for the Haiku of Now challenge
Cold screens flicker once
Black bars settle over names
Air hums, unmoving
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Sara Wilson
I love Ugly Things.
I try and be active AND interactive.
I write... whatever I feel.
Sometimes it's happy.. sometimes it isn't. But it's real. And it's me.
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It's Tuesday 7:13 a.m. A cold and clear November morning awaits Ray on his morning commute. Ray rubs his hands together in the front seat of his Subaru. He turns the air temperature up, but keeps the air on low until the air warms up. He looks at the backup camera screen and reverses the Subaru out of his driveway onto Trimble Road.
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finger snaps!
I just don't know how are these people still walking freely. Unbelievable!
There’s something really eerie about the way “cold screens flicker once” sets the whole mood—like the world is trying to wake up but can’t quite manage it. The black bars over names hit me harder than I expected, because it’s such a quiet image but it carries that feeling of being erased or silenced. I kept thinking about how often we see things like that in the news and just scroll past, but here it feels like the silence is the point. Did you write this after seeing something specific, or was it more about the general feeling of how information gets controlled and hidden?