Julia said ‘the blackness just enveloped me’, and the challenge requires another 100 words, here are mine.
Gomantong Caves
‘We’ll turn the lights off just for one minute’ the guide said. I was scared of the dark, but I’d be okay wouldn’t I? Mark was here. A flick of a switch and the darkness just enveloped me. Every sound was amplified. I tried to reach Mark’s hand, but instead felt something scuttling on the handrail. The single cockroach I’d seen became a thousand in my imagination, and the sweet, sleeping bats were suddenly a murmuration. A silent scream got stuck in my throat and my knees began to crumple.
‘Imagine sleeping here in Gomantong caves?’ said the guide.
Get me out of here.
Lucid Gypsy 
Creepy place in the dark but wonderful reading, Gilly. Gave me shivers. Who likes being in the dark in a strange cave? I’m going to have nightmares now. 🙂
Oh I hope you don’t sweetie 🙂
With cockroaches for company???? I would have had a heart attack Gilly! Great writing and imagination as always 😉
Apart from ‘Mark’ it was true Madhu!
You are one brave woman Gilly! 🙂
Eeeekkk … I was cringing the minute you wrote cockroach. UGH!!!
I would hate to touch it. I know I would have screamed.
This was a story steeped in suspense. Very nice !!!
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oh yuk, cockroaches in the dark, I would be screaming too …. and you never know when a bat will swoop by … horrible and well written Gilly!
Perfect description! Except for the cockroach, I have been there more than once. My family used to visit caves from time to time on vacations. I was never comfortable in them, and I HATED the part where they turned out the lights. As an adult, I do not ever plan to go back into one.
Oh yes! I can feel her fear… your fear.
The hairs are standing up on the back of my neck Gilly!
somehow the silence of darkness can be very loud indeed….. very descriptive. better you than me, i say 🙂
I’d have been clinging on to Mark’s hand before the lights went out, Gilly ~ but then the piece would not have been so evocative of fear and loathing. Congratulations on an excellent piece, I know that producing such a well~rounded piece in 100 words is not easy, (which is why I don’t join in!) 😉
Actually I tend to write 100 flashes in about 20 minutes – it’s longer things that I find hard! I think you should have a try, you might surprise yourself!
Very scary! (I hate creepy crawlies, as well as ones that fly.) I felt the discomfort throughout. Well done.