Write a story that begins and ends with someone looking up at the stars.

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“Stargazing” by Josie Gilbert

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Tim stood at the edge of the cliff, staring up at the clear night sky. The velvety midnight blue was shot through with thousands and thousands of stars, each twinkling brightly. Higher up the full moon gleamed with a yellowish light. It all seemed so calm and peaceful, the antithesis of Tim’s life. He was struggling to cope with his new role in the solicitors’ partnership and the extra responsibilities and stresses it involved. True he enjoyed the added status and the pay rise, but he had not realised the far-reaching changes the promotion w...

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“Another Night in the Heap” by Rodge Rules

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At first, I could only see darkness when I came to. This was certainly worth a little panic but I willed myself to keep calm and think. My head throbbed, which didn't help. This whole remembering thing was proving a challenge. While I was struggling to think, though, my corneas were doing their thing. They gathered what meager rays of light they could collect and passed this to my retinas. Those cells converted that light energy into electrical energy, which my brain interpreted as a small, fuzzy dot of light, either very tiny or very...

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“Never Settle” by Kaamini Jha

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I lay back staring at those stars again. Those damned stars. I’d have to remember to rip them off my ceiling the next chance I get. Too bad I’d wake up in the morning and they wouldn’t be glowing anymore. Whoever thought it’d be a good idea to stick glow in the dark stars on my ceiling? Oh wait, I remember who. The same person that took me star gazing for the first time in my life. Who was thoughtful enough to get a blanket so I wouldn’t get grass stains on my dress. The same person who showed me the Sagittarius in the sky, told me about t...

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“Traveling Solo ” by Jen Ponig

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George sits on the balcony, looking up at the stars. The city feels empty, but it isn’t. It’s part hospital, part morgue. Those who aren’t sick are in private waiting rooms, alone, held hostage by the invisible illness. Stars, streets, windows, walls, balconies, loneliness, solidarity: the thread that connects people in this northern Italian city. The night time ritual has begun. Neighbors go out on to their balconies and hold up their glasses, bottles, coffee cups and cigarettes for a communal brindisi. Silent night. Holy night. George wond...

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“The promise” by Allen Winter

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The starry sky was all that could be seen that night in the field. It was a beautiful landscape: the field extended to the green hills, the wind made the soft murmur of the grass and the sky covered everything like a blanket. Emma and her twin brother always liked to lie on the roof of their cabin every night to admire the stars and play at guessing which figures made up those little points of light. “It is a rabbit.” “It's a dog.” “Rabbit.” “Dog....

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“Consternation” by Dilan Abdah

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IOrion, that’s all he knew.And he wasn’t even looking at it.The river Eridanus had in what could only be described as an up-then-down slope a third of the way, where three stars aligned and fooled him for the belt, a familiar sighting on his behind all those years growing up. His mother didn’t read short stories before bed, she would make them, as they followed round the night sky discovering constellations every weekend. Some were real, some she imagined, but she never wanted to take from him what was real or not. His father on the other ha...

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“=0 ~Satan is my new Latin tutor? ~ :0” by Sejal -

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"Quid est nomen meum?" "What the hell does this mean." I sigh, but it was my fault for taking Latin this year. I should've just taken Spanish like last year. I lay on my back looking up at the stars. Yes, I'm on my roof. Is it dangerous?- Yes. Could I fall and break every bone in my body?- Very much so. Is that going to stop me?- Absolutely not. The stars are still twinkling, and I'm still going to fail my Latin test. Sighing again, I sit up and try to focus. Sipping on my water, I try not to fall asleep. "Est nomen meum......

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“The hunt” by Nsidibe Ekpenyong

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Ma always said the future was written in the stars. That is why we looked at the stars often, but today was special. The tribe's shaman was gazing at the stars for the elders who were singing praises to the divine. It was the night of the hunt: the coming of age ceremony in the tribe and I was coming of age, a little over 14 summers. We were nervous, the lot of us coming of age. It was the culmination of our learning and a proof of our potential. It was a simple fact that the better one performed in the hunt, the better the person's place in...

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“Stars and Ants” by Geeta Krishna Adhikari

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I gaze at the star studded night and wonder if I belong in there. Am I the darkness hovering upon the universe! Or am I the star that shoots into the sky racing through the dark, lightening its way into the never ending void! What am I, that looks for purpose in this vast nothingness. Am I that grain of sand withering with time or am I the atom that fuels the sun with it’s dying breath? I feel like an ant that has lost its scent trail, yet is still roaming near it's hill. I wonder if I’m running around lopsided pulling myself to the ce...

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“Come for me” by Matthieu Lejay

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Looking up at the stars, with his eyes sunk into his palms, little Peter was traveling through space.Points of light swarmed over dark spots. An ocean of brown and yellow flashes. Blurred colors swirled around nebula-like sails. Striated waves were born then disappeared. Everything was moving in this eye space.The shadow of the lamppost reached his bench. Peter now had to go home to avoid any problems. He tossed his old empty bag as high as he could to possibly touch a cloud or even a star. Like an acrobat spinning his hoop, he waited for th...

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“By her side” by Ellie Beldowicz

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Oh, how you wished you could be at the lake now. You went every year with your best friend and looked up watching stars after a long day in the meadow. But now all it was, was a wish. A faraway dream that you couldn’t quite catch. You thought about it daily. How you felt free, not trapped in your head fearing others. You felt like you were on top of the world. Like no one could puncture the hot air balloon called life. You are now sitting, ten years later, your phone in hand with a box of tissues next to you. Rocking back and forth on your p...

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“Holding a Star” by Chhavi Agrawal

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Holding a StarBy: Ivory Stephens“I see it, I see it!!” I yelled. There it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Streaking across the midnight sky, a shooting star. I had always wondered what it would be like to be one of them. Flying across the wide sky, coming from a place so far away most people could only dream of it. To be so rare that simply the sight would be enough to keep a person happy for days. I went back to my room shivering with delight. As I looked up at my ceiling, I saw the sticker stars. It wasn’t that long ago that ...

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“Lucky Stars” by Amanda Oglesby

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The salt air felt like soothing caresses as Lucy pointed out the stars and constellations. Jeff was surprised at her thorough knowledge of astronomy. But as she gazed reverently above, he couldn’t help looking at her. At one point she caught his eyes on her and gave him an embarrassed smile. “What?” she breathed, “why are you looking at me like that?” But his answer was to simply push the loose strands of hair back behind her ear. He then leaned in and nuzzled her neck, whispering naughty suggestions into her ear. Lucy giggled softly. Th...

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“Star Sailor” by Zahin Das

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“Do you think there’ll come a time when we won’t be able to tell the difference between stars and satellites?”She cringed. “Varun, we have to talk about this. I’m sorry for what I said. But we have to talk.”I thought so too. “I was out for a smoke last night when the night watchman came around. He said when you run that shift for as many years as he has, you spend a lot of time looking at the sky.”She murmured with half-hearted, half-defeated reproach. “You shouldn’t smoke.”I kept my eyes on the sea of stars above me and continued. “He told ...

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“In the Light of the Stars” by Hannah Floyd

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The night sky stretched out above him, a blanket of inky blue fading into purple, twinkling stars scattered throughout, each with their own delicate light. Noah knew that if all else faded away in the world, this would remain constant, as it had through all the days of his life. This harmony of light and dark, beauty in the shadows. Nothing but the music of cicadas penetrated the serenity of the evening. As he took in the magnificence of the sky, Noah pictured a night captured in the light of the stars with a beauty quite like this one... ☆ ...

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Write a story that begins and ends with someone looking up at the stars.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 405 stories

“Stargazing” by Josie Gilbert

“Another Night in the Heap” by Rodge Rules

“Never Settle” by Kaamini Jha

“Traveling Solo ” by Jen Ponig

“The promise” by Allen Winter

“Consternation” by Dilan Abdah

“=0 ~Satan is my new Latin tutor? ~ :0” by Sejal -

“The hunt” by Nsidibe Ekpenyong

“Stars and Ants” by Geeta Krishna Adhikari

“Come for me” by Matthieu Lejay

“By her side” by Ellie Beldowicz

“Holding a Star” by Chhavi Agrawal

“Lucky Stars” by Amanda Oglesby

“Star Sailor” by Zahin Das

“In the Light of the Stars” by Hannah Floyd

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