When It Gets Dark Novels & Stories

I know it and he knows it too. Sun sank lower in the sky, light of day draining away, giving way to the velvety dark of night, crickets chirping, dusky, colors subdued in the fading light, first buzz of mosquitoes, street lights click on, day winding down, first star in the night sky, short August darkness, air became cooler, evening landscape, twilight had fallen, the sharp shadow of the lamppost had faded into the dark of the sidewalk, fading light, only the faintest of light shone through the leaves, soon it grew dark, darkening sky, a close silence in the dim evening light.

Alexander would be furious if our mate bond were exposed. But I couldn't bear to stop Noah after seeing him so happy for once. I decided that I'd just have to ask the pups to keep it a secret later. In the evening, the table was filled with food that all pups loved. The delicious aroma wafted through the house. Everyone was seated at the table, waiting for Alexander. As time ticked by, the sound of the clock on the wall grew louder in this silence. The dishes on the table went from steaming hot to stone cold.

Just darkness and quiet. I stared at the ceiling. Tried not to feel trapped. Then suddenly, everything went dark. The lamp I'd left on. Out. The clock by the bed. Dark. The security lights outside my window. Gone. Complete darkness. I sat up. Listened. The hum of electricity. Gone. The backup generators should have kicked in by now. They didn't. The entire estate was dark.

The Dark Forest is a vast area of woodlands so thick that the sunlight ever hardly penetrates through the canopy. Even when the sun is high up in the sky at noon, the heart of the Dark Forest is only ever as bright as the dawn breaking and never really fully committing to a full morning. Because sunlight barely gets through, the forest gets colder the deeper one goes inside. Because of this and some other reasons, the forest has become home to various creatures that are barely seen outside. Creatures that could only be known in books and are considered to be merely created by fantasy.

The sound of her sobs echoed in the empty room, a stark reminder of the pain and regret she now carried with her. She spends the entire day crying, and by 8 p.m., she has convinced herself that she has done everything for Evan. She gets up and starts walking towards the kitchen. Their electricity goes out unexpectedly, and Bella panics. She fumbles around in the dark, searching for a flashlight or a candle. The sudden darkness only adds to her sense of unease and despair. As she finally manages to find a candle and light it, the flickering flame casts eerie shadows on the walls. Bella takes a deep breath and tries to calm her racing heart. She knows she needs to find a way to fix this.

CHAPTER 73- THE RED MOON By five o’clock in the evening, the entire skies were already dark with night. Birds of the sky, confused by the sudden darkness, littered the skies, fleeing to their homes where they would safely spend the night. Bats on the other hand came out with relish, not knowing what was happening, but glad that they had the cover of darkness to go about their nocturnal activities. Everyone in Dnakle was on edge, from the oldest of wolves to even the littlest of pups.

BOOM! It was a taunting sound that only seemed to grow louder his eyes were straining to see through the ever-growing and changing darkness. It was growing dark faster to thick and heavy for him to see clearly. To think that it was only 4 pm, Jake knew with fall and winter approaching they would be getting less and less sunlight and that worried him greatly. He did not know why he never believed in monsters and ghouls but now lost in the dark with that pounding echoing in his ears.

Nisha. I remain silent in the darkness of the room, it's been hours since Griffin left here, no one has come back in, I stopped crying a long time ago, there's no point in doing it, I need to find out what he wants from me. However at that moment I remember Dark's words, "he set his eyes on you, there is no way or way you won't end up in his clutches... when a mobster wants something he doesn't stop until he gets it" his eyes on me, he wants say you like it? But what need does he have to kidnap me, who doesn't know how to ask for things like a normal person? I sigh at how ridiculous my thought sounds, it's a mobster who says they're normal.

We didn't let the darkness win. END OF VOLUME ONE

I explained, and he stared at the window. “So how does it work? It wasn't this way last night. Does it darken during the day?” he asked, and I nodded. “It gets darker based on the amount of UV rays that are being emitted. So yes, most nights it's see-through,” I said, and he looked at the window and then back at me. “You did this for me?” he asked, and I shrugged.