Findings:

• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Was There a Time
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There was a baby in China
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• it was true then
• There are four lights
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There was a time before
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There Was A Friend
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• there's a crack in everything - that's how the light gets in
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• And then Satan said, Let there be cricket ball.
• There was a rose that faded young
• I remember, there was one
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was a young lady of Riga
• I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
• There are no lies in the cool grey light of dawn.
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was a cold day
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There was no one waiting for me...
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• A knock there was upon the door
• and there was this girl
• Once there was a way...
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• coming home and the lights are on because someone's there
• That Was Then, This is Now
• You, there! Come into the light!
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• there are five lights (node_forward)
• Go then. There are other worlds than these.
• And Then There Were None
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• Now and Then, Here and There
• I think I fell in love with her right then and right there
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• I heard a light sigh and then my heart stood still
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• If it was still then-
• No shit, there I was
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• There was an old lady
• There was a time when I was a better person
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Was it ever there?
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was once a Man
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was a man and a woman
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• Where's the kaboom?
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There Once Was a Farmer
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• One hour there was sunlight
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There Is a Light that Never Goes Out
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• I was there
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• There Was No Leak
• Before you, there was me
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• The light is red, but there is a green arrow
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• There was always the blue of you
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There was a little girl
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• There's a certain Slant of light
• Blue light special
• speed of light
• Remain in Light
• cure light wounds
• Why matter cannot reach the speed of light
• middle of summer how crazy it was
• Electric Light Orchestra
• light year
• Cerenkov light
• light at the end of the tunnel
• Light rail
• night light
• lights
• Are you in the light or in the dark?
• Gloranthan Fire/Sky/Light Cults
• Paradox by the Dashboard Light
• True At First Light
• Rising of the Lights
• By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
• Charge of the Light Brigade
• master of light (user)
• old chestnut: light switches
• answer: light switches
• light chaser
• light cycle
• We're all in the dark, just looking for the light
• idiot light
• light pipe
• When we have reached the end of time and light
• lights of arbitrary color
• spindly arms against a sea of light
• sweetness and light
• Into the light
• Inching up at a red light
• Surah 24 Light
• traffic light parties
• Docklands Light Rail
• Circle of light
• Anchor light
• Toward his impossible light
• see the light
• The Light Princess
• The Light Princess: Chapter 1
• The Light Princess: Chapter 2
• The Light Princess: Chapter 3
• The Light Princess: Chapter 4
• The Light Princess: Chapter 5
• The Light Princess: Chapter 6
• The Light Princess: Chapter 7
• City Lights
• How to move something faster than the speed of light
• Guiding Light

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