flashlight

A stray orange cat; a séance in a hostel; a “nearsighted galoot” who decodes cryptic messages from Radio Pyongyang; flashlights that aren’t just flashlights — these bread crumbs guide us to the novel’s denouement.

They picked them up from school, held the flashlight while I checked for lice, assisted them with math homework and attended their school performances.

In Kolkata, reports say guests at the hotel fled to the building rooftop and used flashlights from their phone to signal for help.

Gardner and his family had evacuated to La Crescenta, packing up a few clothes, their passports and some artwork by flashlight before locking up.

Cinematographer Michael Cambio Fernandez cuts through the darkness like Caravaggio, using flashlights and headlights to pull people out of the void and into the bright.