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

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“Looking up at the Stars” by Josephine Nolan

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Looking up at the Stars “Get a grip of yourself” Maureen said, pushing him away. There wasn’t room to be nice. This time she wasn’t trying to let him down gently. Some people can’t take ‘no’ for an answer. Paul was one of them.Nearly two years earlier, Maureen and John had married in a small church in the West of Ireland, with family and a few friends on either side. They were buying a house, that’s where the money was needed. For their honeymoon, they decided to hire a boat and spend a week cruising the Shannon. Th...

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“Star Gazing Grief ” by Rachel McCaw

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“Do you see the milky way?” “Yes, do you?” My brother asked, knowing I can never find it no matter how hard I look. I laugh and confess. “Never. I think you’re just making it up.” We lay on our special star gazing blanket for another hour or so, only saying a few words to each other. He meets me out here every night to watch the stars together, he’s my best friend and this is my favorite time of every day. After we’ve enjoyed the sky enough for the evening, we say goodnight and part ways. I dream of visiting the stars with NAS...

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“Hope” by Asposhto Prakash

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To you, I can see clearly from my cell the star you pointed at, the first time I asked you, “where would you stop”; though I can’t recall its name, can you?I write at night to avoid surveillance and to remember you better. It is so odd, I have forgotten almost everything. Now and then glimpses flash across my eyes and all of a sudden fades away. I do not ask “ how are you?” as I cannot process that answer. You might have wondered why I did not address you, well I ass...

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“The Face Of Venus” by Duane Bass

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THE FACE OF VENUS It was a briskly frigid and windy day that February 16th of the year 1968. Venus shone like a newly faceted diamond of a light blue hue in the dusk of a clearly tumultuous and wintery twilight of escapades. I walked the last mile of my painfully memorized path, to the hearths of my abandon. I was thinking about the many paths that I could have taken, as a 19 year old man. I was clothed in a brittle teenaged husk, waiting for the opportunity to establish my roots, and vault up like a young shoot of wheat might, grasping an...

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“A Disconnected Quartet” by Mr Jingo

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It was 1995 at music camp when they watched the stars.The four departed from the campgrounds to avoid the nightly fire pit conversations. With everyone talking simultaneously in a cacophonous haze of laughter and a pervasive scent of marshmallow, the fireside chats were not a pleasant experience for the quieter campers. Worse, they were to be split up by instrument for the event, so Brandy, averse to the idea of not spending one final night with her friends, decided that they would go to the train yard. Matt and Willow agreed readily, and ev...

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“Estella, a star” by Heung Yi Au

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When will you look up at the shimmering stars? Are you waiting for a meteoric shower to make a wish when you are desperate? Or recharging the batteries and preparing for the upcoming challenge ahead by putting aside the daily trivia? Or suffering from depression, insomnia and anxiety, to name but a few— these all are the negativities may confront under grievance in life. For the protagonist of this story , she just wanted to elude from the misery, bewilderment and painstaking process in her life: there is nothing more than a stopgap measure ...

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“Star gazers” by Victoria Nuzzi

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“I remember the first time I looked up at the stars Adam. Not from a city but from the middle of the woods. The field.”He sputters in bed I place a hand in my grandfather’s frail hand and feel tears come to my eyes. I force myself to keep it in,I want him to stop speaking but this may be his last words. He has been so sick and I know he already hates the fact he thinks he will die in a fluorescent-lit room instead of outside. I will not deny his final words. Any words could be his last I think morbidly to myself.“They were enchanting. There ...

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“Sing to the Stars” by Mikyal Martinus

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“No, run! Getaway. Run!” Sing-to-Stars chest tightens, making it hard to breathe. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead. She thrashed on her basketweave bed then bolted to a sitting position. Her eyes reflected the flames from a campfire just outside her wooden hut’s door and her pupils dilated in terror. She threw off her blanket, put on her shawl, and ran barefooted into the night. Three Indian men of Central Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains in the year 1910 spoke in hush tones while they sat around the campf...

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“The Stargazers” by Janet Joos

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The Stargazers The bell signaled the end of the university astrology class. Sandy packed her books together and left the lecture hall without a word to anyone. She rushed outside into a blustery spring day. Deep in concentration, she walked, half ran towards the library, she ducked her head against the wind, thinking only of the new assignment her professor had just given them. ‚Hey, what the hell?’ Sandy cried as she collided with a solid body and slid to the cold wet ground. She saw a few stars as she bumped her head and she thou...

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“Starcounter” by Alexis Klein

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Eiluned lay sprawled on the grass, her strawberry blonde hair making a wreath around her freckle-sprinkled face and golden eyes. She looked at the clear night sky and the stars above her. She knew that any night could be her last. War raged, hitting and slaying any person or thing in its way. Her father had left Ireland to go fight for the USA. By now, all of Asia was in ruins; Canada and America battled Europe, Africa, and most of South America. Eiluned’s father died because of a nuclear bomb in Brazil, where he had been deployed. Eiluned a...

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“2:16 PM” by Sarah Dumont

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Tuesday. 9:34 PM. The wind was a little bit too strong, a little bit too cold. I was afraid she would be uncomfortable. For a moment, I worried that she would get a cold, and a second later I chuckled while my eyes filled with tears. She could get all the colds in the world now, it wouldn’t really change anything. - What’s going on? She had heard me laugh faintly. - Nothing. I was just thinking about that ridiculous hat of mom’s you used to wear when you were little. She smiled at me, but the sm...

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“Permanence” by Crystal Harsy

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The stars faded in the center of her vision as the storm clouds blew out towards the east. Candace, like everyone at some time she supposed, marveled at the vastness, the clarity, the brightness. She wondered at the distance that made big things seem so small. Clichés played through her mind, the only thoughts that formed with any kind of clarity tonight: Everyone everywhere is looking at the same moon. There are millions of stars in the sky and none of them just the same. That star you’re looking at might have already died and the light is ...

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“The Wolves and Stars” by John Blood

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“Do you hear them?” the old woman said to us around the campfire. “The wolves in the night? Howling at the moon, at the stars?”A silence filled the air, broken only by the crackle of flames, the noise of the forest, and the murmur of the lake. The old woman looked up at the night sky, where the moon shone and the stars twinkled with brilliant radiance, as if listening to a sound that none of us could hear. “I don’t hear a thing!” Sarah spoke at length.“Then listen closely, my dear,” declaimed the old woman in a whisper.&n...

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“Monoceros” by Candela B

Submitted to Contest #39

As soon as I took in a mouthful, I realized that it was poison. In the same instant, I knew it was also an intense panacea, bearing the wonders that had entranced me and now flowed within me. But it was laced with something I had not sensed, a venom of the sort I had never encountered in all of my star years. The substance lingered on my tongue, my organ of curiosity. It tasted of sweet joy and bitter sadness, bubbly laughter and despair-tinged tears. As I collapsed to my knees, I wondered with newfound horror about the small blue-and-green ...

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“Diamond Sky” by Audrey K

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Diamond Sky In the last beautiful place left on Earth, Peony spent every night staring up at the stars she created. There was something glorious about the way she brought them to life. Her parents would say she was gifted, waxing poetic on how a piece of her soul was infused into each twinkling pixel on the screens above. But Peony would only roll her eyes and scoff that they were strings of code. Secretly though, she was pleased. It had been three years since she started working at the Resort. In a world where beauty was so scarce, th...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 388 stories

“Looking up at the Stars” by Josephine Nolan

“Star Gazing Grief ” by Rachel McCaw

“Hope” by Asposhto Prakash

“The Face Of Venus” by Duane Bass

“A Disconnected Quartet” by Mr Jingo

“Estella, a star” by Heung Yi Au

“Star gazers” by Victoria Nuzzi

“Sing to the Stars” by Mikyal Martinus

“The Stargazers” by Janet Joos

“Starcounter” by Alexis Klein

“2:16 PM” by Sarah Dumont

“Permanence” by Crystal Harsy

“The Wolves and Stars” by John Blood

“Monoceros” by Candela B

“Diamond Sky” by Audrey K

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One day, the sun rose in the west and set in the east.

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