Verso Vellum

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“Stars” by Verso Vellum

Submitted to Contest #51

It was the longest night of their existence. They had only been alive for twenty-one years and yet the despair and hopelessness they felt when they gazed at the starry night sky was a pain one so young should never have to face. They stared quietly. Not like in the movies when the protagonist yells and screams into the night for all the unfairness in their life. They simply stared and sighed. There was nothing they could do but hope like a child on a star. I’ve never been able to find the constellations. Maybe that wo...

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