Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "there was a brilliant orange flash, followed by darkness, and then nothing"

• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• He makes me feel alone just by being there
• I think I fell in love with her right then and right there
• There Is Nothing Left to Lose
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There, in that wordless world surrounded by thick ice, I eventually lost all my strength. Bit by bit, bit by bit.
• his is a local shop for local people. There's nothing for you here.
• There is nothing outside the universe
• The German textbook that was written by Morrissey
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• I was hit by a train that doesn't really exist
• And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• There's nothing harder than learning how to receive.
• That Thursday the Universe was curved in the morning and was flat again by afternoon
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Now and Then, Here and There
• and there was this girl
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• Happiness is difficult to come by when one is constantly followed by Frisbees
• In the darkness, where we could barely see
• There is a house by the sea
• Woken up by footsteps of people who weren't there
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• Species isolation by flash patterns
• there is nothing left, no joy, no wonder, just the office and cold soup
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• Hm... that's strange. There's nothing there!
• When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• There's nothing you can do to me that Castro hasn't already done
• This is a local shop for local people. There's nothing for you here.
• There is no weirdness like the weirdness of a novel written by a mathematician
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• it was true then
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• Where's the kaboom?
• Was There a Time
• 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 at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• 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.
• Fossils were put there by God
• Those who are as a light in the darkness shall ever be troubled by moths
• line by line darkness
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• Notes on ruining the beauty of barren places by being there
• Electronically, I was questioned by a mallard of flame…
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• And then by the side of the road, I saw
• Nero was an angler in the lake of darkness
• If Satan is the prince of darkness, then who is the king?
• Suicide is punishable by resurrection. There will be no exceptions.
• To leave you there by yourself chained to fate
• There's nothing noble about being a soldier
• There's no path to follow
• There is nothing outside the text
• There’s nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home
• There is nothing more permanent than a temporary measure
• There's nothing more depressing than an empty mailbox, especially today
• There's nothing sadder than an unemployed stripper with a sick car at Christmas time
• there's nothing left to take a look at
• Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
• like nothing ever was
• There's nothing more annoying than to try to rebel against someone who's totally supportive about whatever you want to do
• My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
• Go then. There are other worlds than these.
• If it was still then-
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was once a Man
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I remember, there was one
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was an old lady
• No shit, there I was
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a cold day
• One hour there was sunlight
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There was a time before
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• There was a man and a woman
• Was it ever there?
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• Jacques Chirac was shot in the head by a fascist named Jean-Marie Le Pen
• Three Puerto Rican girls walked by like accordion music under the trees, looking like they'd accept nothing less than perfection.
• A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
• Food which was intended as such by nature
• their teary eyes follow us as if our actions are accompanied by tragic music
• There By the Grace of God
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• I was raised by the French government
• I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
• My Singing was Stolen by Whispers to a False Friend
• she was waylaid by an octopus
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• There is a place between floating aimlessly with your head in the clouds and just scraping by in the mud-realm of men and commerce.
• If you become lucid, you realize history's greatest literature was being written as you read it ...by yourself.
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• My lunch money was stolen by a predatory Mars rover
• every secret thing was made by some one
• 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
• The place where there is no darkness
• smiling in photographs was a concept introduced by Kodak
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• What was stolen by someone else
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• There's a yellow brick road that we follow back home
• There's nothing new under the sun
• There is nothing inside of you
• There is nothing left for me there, except for all that I left behind
• There's nothing like the sound of snowpants
• We must get there before dark, follow me
• there's nothing special about love or heartbreak
• There is nothing growing here, in the space between she and me
• There is nothing left to cry about
• there's nothing quite as wonderful to me as the assorted scars of a woman who's too busy reading to watch where she's walking
• There is nothing more dangerous than a bored sociopath
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
• It was all whirlwind, heat, and flash
• There's nothing scarier than finding a microchip in your body
• Nothing Was Beautiful and Everything Hurt
• a wound is at first nothing, and then pain, and then blood
• There is nothing the dead can do
• Why is there something rather than nothing?
• No important data was harmed by the ILOVEYOU worm
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• there is nothing you keep, there is only a reflection
• With you there is nothing involved but everything
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• That Was Then, This is Now
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• Jones saw forest, saw nothing for it, was a little telephone apology
• There's nothing wrong with being a fanboy
• There is a pattern in the darkness...
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• And then Satan said, Let there be cricket ball.
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• And Then There Were None
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• I was taken by a honeymoon scam

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