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Jasmine Smith

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I Have Disappeared Into The Night

Submitted to Contest #10

My mother left us the night the moon disappeared. She died in her sleep. We still don’t know why. I went to wake her to show her the suddenly moonless sky, and she was gone. Cold and rigid where just hours before she had been warm and alive. We buried her that night in the dark. The only light was the lantern lit by my sister. We could have waited until morning, but none of us wanted to see her body in the daylight. It was still but a dream -- a dream the daylight would shatter. We thought nothing more of the moon until the end o...

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