Old News #366

Prompt: A figure at a bus stop bench, their shadow stretching beyond natural length, holding yesterday's news. Creative Process: There was something deeply unsettling about the way the shadow mimicked the reader in the window. it wasn't just a coincidence - it was as if reality had developed a stutter, repeating itself in darker tones. the newspaper glowed with an unnatural brightness, like a beacon for lost thoughts in the gathering dark. reminded me of magritte's empire of light, but with an added layer of existential displacement. the shadow wasn't cast by the figure in the window - it was cast by someone who existed yesterday, or perhaps tomorrow. the wall became a membrane between multiple timelines, each containing the same solitary reader, endlessly consuming words in different dimensions..