I Am the Night—Color Me Black | A 100 Word Story

#275 The Twilight Zone S5 E27 3/27/1964

“For committing unspeakable crimes against humanity, you have been found guilty. Punishment is death by hanging of the neck till broken. Do you have anything you’d like to say?”

I scanned the room for the first time since I was tried for this murder. I saw the family of the victim, my own family, and then the judge. None of them have any idea what they have just done.

“I am the night. You cannot cast a shadow here.”

“Take him away,” the judge said. “He hangs at sunrise.”

“COLOR ME BLACK!” It’s been one hundred days without a sunrise.