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The Crushing Weight of Light

Marsha Adams
Mmm Mondays
Published in
5 min readFeb 12

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They’re only light playing tricks, that’s all

Flickering shadows on a cavern wall

Movies are weird: actual people pretend to be imaginary people, and machines convert them into patterns of light.

Movie crushes are even weirder: we convert the light into desire, for the real people we can’t actually see.

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Marsha Adams
Mmm Mondays

Autistic author of psychological smut and philosophical filth. Usually found hiding behind a book.