From: DarkAlien28@aol.com
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:51:42 EDT
Subject: A story to submit
Source: direct

   Darkness... How can you describe it? Well, it's that gut feeling you get 
when there is no one around, and everything in the world is silent, for one 
brief moment. Millions of children around the world fear the dark.. Why? 
Perhaps it is because of the fact that everything we do, we use our eyes. In 
complete darkness your eyes are useless. The fight or flight syndrome kicks 
in and you feel the adrenalin pumping through your blood a hundred miles a 
minute and you don't know why. 

                    COMPLETE DARKNESS

    Mulder had always feared the dark all his life and told no one. I mean 
why else would he leave his television on all the time? Or his fish, tank 
that light was always on as well. 

          Mulder's apartment 10 o'clock: 
    He was sitting on his couch watching T.V. and the phone rang. He answers 
his phone, "Mulder." It's(of course) Scully.
She had been laying in bed and just like Mulder, unable to sleep. As they 
talk the subject of the stars comes up for no reason at all. Scully talks of 
how the stars give off a lot of light. "Mulder, hey Mulder are you there?" 
"Oh sorry I was drifting off." (Mulder wasn't drifting off he was freaked, 
but Scully had no clue.) They talked a little more of the stars and then 
Mulder decided to let her go, and he did. 

    Mulder got dressed and went for a walk around his apartment. The 
adrenalin was surging through him as he walked down the dark and damp 
streets. Just then he heard a voice but didn't pay much attention. krycek 
steps out and grabs Mulder by the colar. "Get your hands off me!" Mulder 
pushed Krycek with ease. Krycek pulled some toxin that only a sleeze like 
that would have, and he throws it in Mulder's eyes. Now Mulder was in the 
dark and blinded. Krycek disappeared into a dark alley and Mulder tried to 
follow but it was no use. Krycek got away.
Mulder was blinded and he stumbled to his apartment, and manages to call 
Scully. "Scully, get over here quick." 

        St. Gossamer Hospital 3 a.m.
    "We are stablizing him but we are unable to analize the toxins in his 
eyes." "Okay thanks." Scully left and shut the light off. "NO Scully leave 
the light on!" So she turned it back on and then left. 

              2 weeks later:
    Scully cried on his shoulder as Mulder sat there in his worst nightmare, 
siting there in total Darkness.