Something Strange Happened on Laurel St.

"The horizon is thirty feet in either direction. You are safe from the darkness. Give thanks."

With only hazy memories of a time before, a person finds themselves in an empty suburban street enveloped by absolute darkness. The only landmarks are a sign explaining nothing, and a street light providing the only visibility and oppressive warmth. Trying to leave, they discover they cannot exist without the street light's beam. With rising desperation they decide that they must escape past the dark.