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

Posted in Teens on Oct 28, 2022

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“The Stars” by Piper M

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 ‘The stars look so beautiful.’ Hope pulled herself closer into her boyfriend’s chest as he played with her hair and gently kissed her forehead. ‘Do you really have to leave?’ A soft sigh escaped Chris and he pulled himself up.‘Is that why you wanted to do this?’ Hope didn’t answer at first and Chris let go of Hope and scooted over so the two were looking at each other. ‘I know it seems like I’m going to be away forever but it’s only going to be around 5-6 months. I know you want me to stay but I’ve been planning this for almost a ...

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“Greta The Pink Ninja Spy” by Svea Wagner

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Greta The Pink Ninja SpyBook 1By: Svea WagnerA beautiful night struck the campgrounds as Greta the pink ninja spy looked up at the stars with her big sister Svea. Svea is also Greta's trusty sidekick. Greta and her trusty sidekick Svea were getting ready for their new mission as a ninja spy. There was a missing diamond somewhere in the ocean, and they had to find it before the bad guys (Rex, Luke, and Ivan) do. Rex, Luke, and Ivan were most famous for stealing things that people cherish the most. This time they stole the world's most prized ...

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“Bigger than your fears.” by Shanedra Smith

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It was 9:56 pm. All seven year old boys and girls were supposed to be either tucked into bed, off to sweet dreams about dolls and toy cars or whatever sparked their interests, or preparing by bathing, brushing their teeth, and reading a bed time story with Mommy or daddy. But tonight, a young girl—aged 6—was too scared to let sleep overtake her as it so threatened to. Although her eyes were heavy and tired, calls for Mommy and Daddy were frequent by the minute and her little voice trembled with tears that were yet to come out. Her older sist...

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“Starcounter” by Alexis Klein

Submitted to Contest #39

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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“The Southern Cross” by Anna Vos

Submitted to Contest #39

       He leaned over her shoulder and pointed.             “Allí esta la Cruz del Sur.”            She looked up into the Chilean sky and didn’t see anything.  She tried to feign recognition but he could tell she was faking it.            “¿No la ves, verdad?”        &nb...

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“The Stars of Hope” by Joseph Hilary

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Looking up at the stars was a sacred moment for me back in the bright younger days. I remember asking Dad on one clement evening, why are there many torchlight in the sky? Dad smiled, curled my head, touched my cheeks and said, Son, they are not torchlight but stars, the sky is full of stars, he added. My father’s house is situated at the outskirts of my village. The compound is filled with variety of economic trees, an indication that my dad was a good farmer. The trees denied me the wide gaze I needed, to contentedly view the stars and scr...

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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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“The man who watched the stars” by Iren Petrova

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He was looking up at the stars as if he wanted to see his own star rising in the sky. It was clear that night and time seemed to have stopped so that humankind could look beyond and seek the true meaning of life. But no one was looking at the sky except this man who would have been wiped out from the face of the earth soon.“Are you still looking for your star, Mr Schmidt?”, asked the nurse who came into his room unnoticed.“This time I think I see it. Come here, I'll show it to you.”The old man stood on the terrace, wearing his blue pajamas a...

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“Permanence” by Crystal Harsy

Submitted to Contest #39

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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“When the stars and moon were my only friends” by Edith B

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 I never quite noticed how lovely the morning sky was with her delicate stars, every single one caressing my tired face and kissing my lips.They have always been there for me, always off in the distance. Following. Watching. Protecting.Red and orange leaves swirl around me, softly teasing my skin. Colors shimmer in the sunlight, glinting as if a thousand brilliant gems were adhered to the tree branches. They host a private, bewitching dance in the gentle breeze; Mother Nature’s crowned jewels, a treat just for me.Children laughing and s...

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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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“Journey of Hope” by Belle Jackson

Submitted to Contest #39

Out here, the millions of tiny lights are all that remind me it will be okay. Floating over the unending expanse of ocean, night-time is what I crave, when the inky waters are illuminated by specs of bright white, glittering over the calm waves. These lights give me far more comfort than anything, knowing that I am shrouded and protected. A star for every friend and family member, every person I’d ever spoken to or smiled at or just seen. For every person waiting for me at home, safe.All night I look up at the sky blinking back at me, until ...

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“2:16 PM” by Sarah Dumont

Submitted to Contest #39

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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“The Balcony” by Johnna Rich

Submitted to Contest #39

Wind silences as the white candle accompanies me onto the balcony in the city starlight. With a small creak, the door lightly taps to close the barrier of inside and out. I light the candle and sit it on the ground.   “I just was telling you,” talking to the visible stars in the city skylight, “about my date with him, I just got home and I think I found the love you and grandma had.”   My grandfather on my mom’s side passed last year. He’d been with my grandma since they were fourteen years of age and marri...

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