Danielle Dayney14 Comments on Flicker

Flicker

Last year, I bought a lantern for our cabin and filled the batteries for storm season. My child played with it in the “woods” of her darkened bedroom.

Last week, power flickered. I flipped the lantern switch. The batteries may have died, but we never lost the light.

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Published by Danielle Dayney

Born and raised in Ohio, Danielle Dayney got her start writing rock concert reviews for a music magazine called The Glass Eye in Toledo. Today, her work has appeared in the Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Huffington Post, Dead Housekeeping, The Mindful Word, and in several anthologies including the Virginia Writers Centennial Anthology, Nevertheless We Persisted, and Beach Reads: Lost and Found. She also received awards at BlogHer for her creative nonfiction essays. Her debut essay collection is forthcoming from Brandylane Publishers.

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14 thoughts on “Flicker”

  1. mixedbag February 7, 2019 — 11:13 am

    I love the image of the child playing in the “woods” of her darkened bedroom

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    1. snapsandbits February 7, 2019 — 2:13 pm

      I was scrolling down to say this exact same thing but you beat me to it!

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        Danielle Dayney February 7, 2019 — 5:41 pm

        Thank you for commenting, Stacie ❤️ glad you liked it!

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    2. northie February 7, 2019 — 3:43 pm

      Same as Stacie – you beat us to it.

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        Danielle Dayney February 7, 2019 — 5:39 pm

        Thanks for reading and commenting ❤️

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      2. mixedbag February 8, 2019 — 12:31 am

        That’s because I live in the future, time-zone wise 🙂

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      Danielle Dayney February 7, 2019 — 5:40 pm

      Thanks for reading and commenting, Hema ❤️

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  2. Sara February 7, 2019 — 2:46 pm

    This is beautiful, Danielle!

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  3. jawilcox711 February 7, 2019 — 4:06 pm

    I love the image of the child playing “in the woods” in her bedroom!

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  4. innatejames February 7, 2019 — 5:37 pm

    I don’t know if it was intentional, but the way “we never lost the light” is on its own line is poetic.

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      Danielle Dayney February 7, 2019 — 5:38 pm

      It was. I wanted it to have a double meaning. Not sure if it came through, but thank you for the nice comment =)

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