Below I’ve listed all of the “shadow sentences” in The Nature Preserve novel which can be read on this site:
1. Even at this early hour, everything looked overexposed, with acute highlights and crisp shadows.
2. He watched the shadow of his shoulders rise and fall with every breath.
3. Swan pictured a shadowy figure brandishing an electric prod in a tattered glove.
4. The sunlight was brighter, the air unmoving, the shadows more hard-edged and opaque.
5. He stopped in the shadow of a wall and leaned against it.
6. For a long time, through a gap in her matted hair, she watched shadowy forms of floating garbage collide with the pillars.
7. The sun’s warm rays fell upon Swan’s back and Swan’s shadow fell across Ebony’s dress.
8. The shadows of their limbs made the Maxigrass around them blue.
9. It was then he noticed the people at the far side of the plaza walking within the shadow of the wall.
10. It had a jutting portico with four columns, the roof of which cast a black shadow over the doors.
11. Swan, in the meantime, was squatting in the shadow of the chemical tank, grasping himself beneath his armpits as if he was trying to pick himself up.
12. Shadows cast by old telephone poles swiped across her lap.
13. The shadows, so intense and stark, made it hard to know what he was seeing and he was too anxious, too much in a hurry, to take in these surroundings with any clarity.
14. A puff of wind high in the trees made the shadows flutter.
15. From out of the shadows beneath the lowest balcony, Kulp emerged in his burlap suit.
16. No, not a mouse; a shadow.
17. One by one, the musicians came out from the shadows carrying their instruments, and climbed onto a small stage which, until that moment, Swan had not noticed.
18. Her skin was the color of cappuccino and she was wearing lots of smokey-looking eye shadow and blue lipstick.
19. Its branches cast an enormous shadow like a hovering net.
20. She turned back to him quickly and Swan noticed, for the first time, a shadow of worry fall across her face.
21. His feet were so white they appeared to glow, and beneath the deep shadows of the overpass, his toenails gleamed like the blank faces of a ghostly little family.
22. Emerging from the shadow, he felt the sun on his naked skin.
23. Swan thought of himself as a sort of bug upon the vast landscape, a tiny brown jot with a stark stickman shadow.
24. The shadow of the herbicide tank cut across her, cloaking her lower body in darkness.
Everything's cattywampus. The rock looks like a perfectly 2-dimensional, angry sunfish swimming across the sand, about to eat a large sand-bubble. You are straddling the 2nd and 3rd dimensions as your shadow leaves your body through your feet to join the sunfish. The sand itself seems almost lunar except for the color, and the angle of water's edge makes it appear like some horizon with linear clouds in the sky. It's probably one of the best, disorienting images I've seen in awhile.
I love that you included all the sentences with the word shadow from the Nature Preserve. I'm surprised there aren't more. The shadow series is great so far! There's so much AI bullshit on here now and it's good to be reminded that you can just go outside and see all sorts of cool things if you just look.
Below I’ve listed all of the “shadow sentences” in The Nature Preserve novel which can be read on this site:
1. Even at this early hour, everything looked overexposed, with acute highlights and crisp shadows.
2. He watched the shadow of his shoulders rise and fall with every breath.
3. Swan pictured a shadowy figure brandishing an electric prod in a tattered glove.
4. The sunlight was brighter, the air unmoving, the shadows more hard-edged and opaque.
5. He stopped in the shadow of a wall and leaned against it.
6. For a long time, through a gap in her matted hair, she watched shadowy forms of floating garbage collide with the pillars.
7. The sun’s warm rays fell upon Swan’s back and Swan’s shadow fell across Ebony’s dress.
8. The shadows of their limbs made the Maxigrass around them blue.
9. It was then he noticed the people at the far side of the plaza walking within the shadow of the wall.
10. It had a jutting portico with four columns, the roof of which cast a black shadow over the doors.
11. Swan, in the meantime, was squatting in the shadow of the chemical tank, grasping himself beneath his armpits as if he was trying to pick himself up.
12. Shadows cast by old telephone poles swiped across her lap.
13. The shadows, so intense and stark, made it hard to know what he was seeing and he was too anxious, too much in a hurry, to take in these surroundings with any clarity.
14. A puff of wind high in the trees made the shadows flutter.
15. From out of the shadows beneath the lowest balcony, Kulp emerged in his burlap suit.
16. No, not a mouse; a shadow.
17. One by one, the musicians came out from the shadows carrying their instruments, and climbed onto a small stage which, until that moment, Swan had not noticed.
18. Her skin was the color of cappuccino and she was wearing lots of smokey-looking eye shadow and blue lipstick.
19. Its branches cast an enormous shadow like a hovering net.
20. She turned back to him quickly and Swan noticed, for the first time, a shadow of worry fall across her face.
21. His feet were so white they appeared to glow, and beneath the deep shadows of the overpass, his toenails gleamed like the blank faces of a ghostly little family.
22. Emerging from the shadow, he felt the sun on his naked skin.
23. Swan thought of himself as a sort of bug upon the vast landscape, a tiny brown jot with a stark stickman shadow.
24. The shadow of the herbicide tank cut across her, cloaking her lower body in darkness.
25. No... it was only a shadow.
Everything's cattywampus. The rock looks like a perfectly 2-dimensional, angry sunfish swimming across the sand, about to eat a large sand-bubble. You are straddling the 2nd and 3rd dimensions as your shadow leaves your body through your feet to join the sunfish. The sand itself seems almost lunar except for the color, and the angle of water's edge makes it appear like some horizon with linear clouds in the sky. It's probably one of the best, disorienting images I've seen in awhile.
Such a great description! I also find this disorienting, and glad to hear I'm not the only one.
I love that you included all the sentences with the word shadow from the Nature Preserve. I'm surprised there aren't more. The shadow series is great so far! There's so much AI bullshit on here now and it's good to be reminded that you can just go outside and see all sorts of cool things if you just look.
Thank you. I'm looking, but I'm also trying to outsmart my iPhone.