Self-Shadowed

[dukealien]

I really like this. It's an encapsualtion of a moment - I really think it would be better in first person. More immediate. Maybe I'd leave out 'own' too.

Looked back at the notebook, hoping to be able to say it began as first person, but no luck:  there are three versions, first scratchy, second indecipherable due to many arrows and crossouts, and this is the third.  All third person.  I'll think about changing it.  Thanks!

Those steps are at my sister's house.  Walking down them on a dark morning with luggage  is a holy terror:  each step already shades the rest, and your shadow just keeps getting bigger as you move further from the light.  Uneven, too.