The Lure of the Darkness

 

I have switched my monitor so that the page I am typing on is black instead of white, and the letters show up as white.  It turns out that looking at a blank black page is somewhat like peering into a dark room.  I wonder what is in there.  I know there is a story, but what is it about?

Is this to be a mystery - a who-done-it?  Maybe it is a simple tale of a lonely can of beans, rolling back and forth across the deck of a ship, as it makes its way to the next port.  The vacationers in the cabin below wonder what that strange noise is.  Should they report it?  Has something important broken lose from the ship, and maybe the captain should be made aware of it? 

Then again, maybe they will just investigate for themselves.  What does it matter if it is dark out and everyone else is still sleeping.  Just how spooky can a strange ship at night be, anyway? 

Once we leave this room, we just need to walk down a very long hallway, past everyone’s cabin, make our way to the stairs and then try and find the area over our room.  How hard can that be?  And will we still hear the noise once we’re up there?

So far, I'm liking the black page system.  It seems to have much more adventure in it than staring at a boring white page.

We'll have to see how it goes.