0Stars you put up
The hill, after everyone went in

GlowingCat

Nobody asked me to. I just happened to be the brightest thing in the field, and people started walking toward it.

Buy X Dex
the glowing cat sitting
How it went

Nobody asked me to

in a box
on a windowsill
walking with moths
climbing the rock
curled up asleep
01

The box

Behind a shop. You could see it from the road.

02

The sill

They stopped paying the electric that month.

03

The moths

Them first. Then everyone else.

04

The climb

Highest place I could find. That is all it was.

05

Still on

It does not go off when I sleep.

Still on

nine years, no switch
Places I lit

Nobody was there

Three of them. I did not choose any of these. I was simply the last thing still on.

an empty bus shelter
The shelterNo bus
a still black lake
The lakeTwo of me
a path through grass
The pathLit as I went
walking with moths
Half past two

The grass only exists where I am

Everything behind me goes back to being black the moment I pass it. I have decided not to take that personally.

tall grass at night
Field02:31
curled up asleep
Before it got light

I do sleep

It does not go off when I do. That is the part people find unfair, and they are right, and there is nothing I can do about it.

asleep under a pine
Treeline04:10

The hill was just the highest place. That is the entire reason.

soon
0stars you left up there