Sue Lee

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

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“The Observatory” by Sue Lee

Submitted to Contest #126

The laughter of the children was hushed. Swiftly the youngsters crept around the tiled floor of the Observatory, dropping bundles of dry daisies and lighting each one on fire. Around them, the sunset drew a film of dimness over the desert village. In the middle of the village rose the Tower, on the roof of which was the Observatory with a tiny stone house in its center, just then encircled by a bright golden ring of flames and glowing-eyed children. The December dusk sky overhead darkened into its last few hours of the year, but flames lit u...

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