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
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• 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
• Where's the kaboom?
• 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
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• 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 left to take a look at
• There's nothing harder than learning how to receive.
• That Thursday the Universe was curved in the morning and was flat again by afternoon
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was a rose that faded young
• Now and Then, Here and There
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There was a cold day
• There once was a girl named Irene
• 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
• 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
• There was a young lady of Riga
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was once a Man
• it was true then
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• One hour there was sunlight
• and there was this girl
• 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
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• 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
• 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 is nothing the dead can do
• 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 a time when I was a better person
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• No shit, there I was
• There was an old lady
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• Was it ever there?
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Was There a Time
• There was a man and a woman
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There was a time before
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• I remember, there was one
• 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
• a wound is at first nothing, and then pain, and then blood
• Nothing Was Beautiful and Everything Hurt
• Why is there something rather than nothing?
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• No important data was harmed by the ILOVEYOU worm
• 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
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
• 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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