What a wonderful idea Sue – my two brothers and i used to pick a topic and write three stories about it – insightful even if not literature – here is my story.

“I’ve decided to go back down and share what i saw, to spread the wonderful news – light, sunlight, flowers, intoxicating scents and the sounds of the living earth- words cannot describe the experience, especially when you have lived your whole life looking at shadows on the wall of a dark damp cave. I hope i can find the words to explain to the others what they are missing.

I’m sitting here, just inside the entrance, filling myself with the wonders of light before i go back into the darkness. I have been so tempted to stay out in the sunlight enjoying it, basking in it, delighting in it but i know it would be wrong not…