Date: December 14, 2025
Location: Cream & Amber, Hopkins
Prompt: Think of a famous line from a movie/book/song, take it out of the original context, and start your story with it. (I chose the last line from the song “What It Sounds Like” from KPop Demon Hunters)

“When darkness meets the light, this is what it sounds like.”

The thought flickered across her mind as she sat there, sightless yet defiant, lifting her face toward the commotion above her head. There was a strange purity to the clash. An instant stripping bare of pretenses, breaking into the black void that had for so long loomed over and within her, ominous and heavy. She felt the light rather than saw it, pulling her upward, strengthening her limbs, tearing the dark thing out of the center of her to rend it to ash, scattering the fragments into nothing. She was weightless. Free, for the moment. Not saved, but alive. Not whole, but healing, and nothing if not something of herself again.