Set your story in a world where astrology and the movements of celestial bodies deeply impact the lives of inhabitants.

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“Everything is Connected” by Olivier Breuleux

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Many people don't believe that everything is connected. It's strange. They believe in magnets, in electromagnetic waves, in quantum action at a distance. They believe that the force of gravity makes the Earth revolve around the Sun, and yet they do not believe that the same forces can influence the smaller details of our fate. They believe that it is all up to them. That they have free will. They say that Jupiter can gently pull the Sun, yet it cannot move our infinitely smaller souls.A paradox.The stars are difficult to read, for sure. The ...

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“The Mismatch” by K.A. Murray

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1-Libra It was the day before our cohort’s A&S ceremony, and I had a lot to do to get ready. This was my first time solo organizing as a Planner, and I wanted this event – our cohort’s celebratory party – to be special. My goal for the morning was decor, and I knew where I needed to go for that. I left the LCC - the Libra Convention Center, where I’d live full-time after tomorrow - and headed down Main Street to the Studio. The sky was clear, and I could see the mountaintops that surrounded our town - they seemed to stretc...

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“The Fate In Our Stars: A Professor Deshpande Mystery” by Martin Ross

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“You are no fan,” Saanvi observed.The man would have attracted little notice nearly anywhere in Millington but the Theodore Bradbury Gallery. He turned slowly with only his torso, lowered his gaze nearly two feet.“This is some woke shit.” He turned back to the print, shaved head glinting in the studio light. The towering, sunbaked man was in jeans and a black pocket tee turned a dusty near-indigo by constant self-laundering.“And how so? How is this painting ‘woke’?”He now turned completely, and the Arts Department chief regarded the ink peek...

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“Council of the Zodiac Ambassadors ” by Martha Kowalski

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Council of the Zodiac Ambassadors Week of 4/8/2024 Agenda: Horoscope Town Hall with Ambassadors Aria (Ram District), Tori (Bull District), Gev (Twin District), Candace (Crab District), Leon (Lion District), Virginia (Maiden District), Libby (Scales District), Scott (Scorpion District), Satoshi (Archer District), Catherine (Sea-Goat District), Atticus (Water Bearer District), Pierce (Fish District...

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“Betokened” by Jorge Soto

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*Pasture of LightIt was the start of a perfect day when the Fisher scanned the western horizon of the island. He sat beneath a tree’s branch, looking up under the vacant stars, and counted constellations while he awaited the slow-to-rise sun. In the early mornings, he recalled the age-old stories of their creation which had been passed down to him by his ancestors. This was his time and place to inherit the sand, so the fantastical details of astrology and meteorology were his alone to safeguard. Suddenly he watched as a fiery blue star fell...

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“The Blighted Eye” by Ev Datsyk

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It is a well-known fact that, when the night pins atop the day, lunacy rises. Youth play pranks under the veil of darkness (inevitable: preying on the shard of bone that sits in the Grand Hall, dipping it in glitter before returning the rib to its pedestal; possible: going for the city’s jugular, taking the scrolls of the Lost Years and writing DICK in the margins). Beggars and thieves will steal across the iced-over canals, clamber into the shallow boats caught in the white-blue freeze, and reap their drawers of prizes. Cloaked creatures sl...

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“All the Signs” by Julia Rajagopal

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Detective Arthur Winson crouched over the dead body with a weary sigh. As a Capricorn, he could go days without sleep, but he didn’t feel good doing it. A short, round, dead man lay before him with no visible wounds. The only signs of distress were the black veins that ran up the man’s neck and onto his right cheek, a textbook Scorpio poisoning. The air in the apartment was hot and stale. Under his suit coat, Arthur’s broad back was wet with sweat. His temporary partner, a Gemini named Derek Tomasso, stood in the corner of the room. With a s...

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“Lunacy” by Jeremy Burgess

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Standing in the cold stone hallway of Castle Halgar, the High Priestess Assanda assessed Prince Cordus, her amber eyes finding him wanting. "Now that you have returned to court, you will need to do as I say should you wish to remain breathing," she said. She was an imposing woman of generous frame and voluminous robe, white braided with gold, as was customary for the Church of the Sky. Around her neck hung the holy sigil, a polished stone black circle with a thin gold rim, and a point of silver in the middle. She wore no makeup of any ...

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“TWILIGHT'S EMBRACE: A LUMINA ECLIPSE TALE” by Darvico Ulmeli

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In a world where astrology and the movements of celestial bodies deeply impact the lives of its inhabitants, exists a planet bathed in eternal sunlight. Lumina, devoid of night, revolves around its radiant sun, the source of life and energy for its inhabitants.But as the inhabitants of Lumina discovered, their dependence on the sun was not merely symbolic—it was a matter of survival. Without the sun's life-giving warmth, the planet's delicate ecosystem would wither and die, plunging Lumina into darkness and despair.Faced with the impending t...

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“Madame, the Mystic.” by Julie Grenness

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Jade stood gazing at her reflection. Beautiful bride, white satin, a veil of lace, stylish shoes, her face aglow. Then she paused, it as still her fantasy. Jade had bought her wedding gown years ago, as a teenager. She had chosen her veil and shoes, designed and stocked all the wedding invitations, imagined her bouquet, her hair style. It was her quite reasonable expectation that she would have been married in that frock, as soon as the handsome suitor proposed. She could visualize him on bended knee, offering his mother's pearl and diamond ...

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“I Met My Nemesis In Retrograde” by C.B. Chribby

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I’m not crazy about fortune telling but you know better than to argue with science, right? I mean, experts think they’ve finally found the means to change things up a bit and allow us to drink a few potions so that things won't be so bad in our opposite seasons, but honestly, it just hasn't been working out for me. Take koff, that lovable drink we often take when we get up in the morning and we’re feeling down about ourselves. It gives us energy and when the moon is in retrograde, we need all the energy we can get. Well, right now...

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“The Colonisation of Hetra - (Part 1)” by Khadija S. Mohammad

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Coco jetted through the doors just as they closed behind the applicants. She breathed a sigh of relief that accidentally blew small bubbles into the faces of the other candidates. It would have been a disaster if she'd been even one second later. For the whole of her four-month life, she had been studying and practising for this interview. She imagined how angry her parents would be with her if she'd been stuck outside of those doors. They were always chiding her on her oversleeping and constantly giving her advice, despite how much she insi...

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“The Girl With Stars In Her Eyes” by Cedar Barkwood

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Trigger Warning: Death and psychotic illness and reactions. --- ---The doctors always told me that I was broken, that there was something different with my mind. I never believed them before I saw it…--- ---My name is Tara, I’m sixteen, I have one sister, two parents, and around thirteen psychologists, and four therapists. I have these dull green eyes, not bright leafy green, not insightful piercing green, no. Dull, sick green. I have choppy brown hair that curls, molding to the shape of my head. I would kill somebody for my sister. I...

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“Filethelia” by Rubekkah Estero

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I know not what will happen when the power takes hold of me, though my father has been preparing me for this day for the past eighteen years. I stand on the clifftops of Yapeche, my home for my entire life, and that of generations of Filethelias before me. If my destiny fails me here tonight, I may be the last. The sun has finally fallen below the horizon, and the last colours are fading from the sky to be replaced by the dark of night. I glance down at the peninsula below me, where our men are locked in intense battle ...

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“Bringing Back the Glow” by Bob Faszczewski

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For hundreds of years residents of the Northern Hemisphere had romped throughout the summer wearing as little attire as possible in their local lakes and the world's oceans. In 2929, though, the sun left the planet midway through the season and disappeared behind the haunting and oversized shadow of the Earth’s moon. Solar eclipses had happened frequently, often more than once a year, several times during our home base’s long histo...

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Set your story in a world where astrology and the movements of celestial bodies deeply impact the lives of inhabitants.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 36 stories

“Everything is Connected” by Olivier Breuleux

“The Mismatch” by K.A. Murray

“The Fate In Our Stars: A Professor Deshpande Mystery” by Martin Ross

“Council of the Zodiac Ambassadors ” by Martha Kowalski

“Betokened” by Jorge Soto

“The Blighted Eye” by Ev Datsyk

“All the Signs” by Julia Rajagopal

“Lunacy” by Jeremy Burgess

“TWILIGHT'S EMBRACE: A LUMINA ECLIPSE TALE” by Darvico Ulmeli

“Madame, the Mystic.” by Julie Grenness

“I Met My Nemesis In Retrograde” by C.B. Chribby

“The Colonisation of Hetra - (Part 1)” by Khadija S. Mohammad

“The Girl With Stars In Her Eyes” by Cedar Barkwood

“Filethelia” by Rubekkah Estero

“Bringing Back the Glow” by Bob Faszczewski

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