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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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“Us And The Stars Forever” by Anastasia Foxx

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The first memory of us that I can think of was my 10th birthday, when I showed you and Tess how to stargaze.I remember that we laid together on the damp grass, listening to the cicadas chirp as they always did in July.“Can I ask you guys a question?” I had said quietly, not wanting to ruin the magic of the moment.You had merely smirked, “You just did.”Tess glared at you, but I laughed anyway. We all knew that you couldn’t help your snarky humor.Tess, always the mom of the group, had squeezed my hand gently, “You can tell us anything Hadley.”...

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“The Hands of Death” by Lynn Penny

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Everything is always changing. Whether you like it or not, it is going to change. The Mortals who watch the stars during their moment with them may say that they will always be there, but the stars must die. Everything dies in the end.Life and Death have been watching the stars for as long as they have been there. Life admires the beauty they behold and the joy they bring to their mortal watchers, but Death cannot do the same. The stars suffer the same destiny the mortals do, for they live a wondrous life but must find their end in a burning...

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“Stars” by Crystal Lewis

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Every summer since I turned twelve, my grandfather and I would get a giant picnic blanket and lay it down in the paddock furthest from his farmhouse and, on the clearest of nights, we would turn our gaze to the stars above.I was a true city boy, born and raised, but there was always something special about my grandfather’s farm. For some reason it held a magic in it, a wildness that, as a young boy, I craved. On one such, cool, clear night, we lay down and gazed above. The sight I saw dazzled me. “Are those really the stars?” I asked my gran...

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“Angels of the Ocean” by Zea Bowman

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The eerie darkness of that night would never escape my memory. I clearly remember the pitch-black curtain draped over the sky, and the twisted, warped shapes that the stars made against the blackness. The milky speckles twirled and danced along the sky in various patterns, tugging at the corners of my lips in a way that almost made me smile. It was hard to shove aside the worries corrupting my mind, but eventually, I stopped walking over the soft sand below my feet and just... stopped thinking. Nothing from my life could touch me. Not a sing...

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“Two Lovers, One Sky” by Kirsty B

Submitted to Contest #39

Through this ever changing life, there is one constant. That vast inked sky as the sun fell; stars scattered like fairy lights for the angels. Even if a sea of clouds masked its beauty, it was still there. It may not always be visible, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not there. I had found myself gazing out the sitting rooms window more and more as the days went on. Life had become a confusing blur of nothing and everything merged into one. It terrified me it was completely out of my power. Yet all I could do was sit by the window ...

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“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars” by Sam T.

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I pinched the rough blades of the dry grass I lay sprawled upon between my fingers absentmindedly while gazing up at the Prussian blue sky dotted with twinkling stars, looking like tiny diamonds encrusted into it. I let out a deep breath and felt my body and mind relax further, the scent of nature engulfing me along with its natural sounds like the rhythmic chirping of crickets, which both added to the silence but also cut through it. I didn’t care that it was late at night and I snuck out through my dilapidated window, I didn’t care that th...

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“Cancer” by Anushka Binoy

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The flecks of white in the sky shone like tiny beacons of hope - that was something I really needed now. Hope. It has been 42 days. 42 days since I’ve lain in this hospital bed, gazing at the same stars every night. And if you asked me what plans I had for my future, I would say, to lie in this hospital bed and look at the stars. That’s the thing about cancer. It brings your life to a screeching halt. In fact, you stop having a life. I gave up the day I was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer.I still remember that day. I entered the hospital ...

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“My Parents are Worse Than Tinder Dates with Knives” by Lily Kingston

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“Looking up at stars can be very romantic,” I told my Tinder date—I don’t remember her name—as I glanced at the stars above us. “It can be, truly, but it’s a very… um… situational ‘can’. But, there are times where it's not. For instance—and I’m just spitting ideas here—when they’re in the center of pentagons…” I squinted at the apartment’s ceiling. “Written in either blood or jam—either way it’s not coming out, which is a huge other nightmare in its own right.”She strolled over to be with two glasses of wine in her hands. I got the fullier o...

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“Star-gazing” by Charm Elizabeth Merchant

Submitted to Contest #39

                                   “You’re quiet. What are you thinking about?”Andy and I lay on the grass, holding hands, as we gazed up at this dark, vast canopy sprinkled with millions of diamond lights. So mesmerized was I by the sight of it, my voice took on a dreamy tone when I answered him.“I was thinking back to when we first met.”“I remember it very well,” Andy...

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“Blind Visitors” by Joshua G. J. Insole

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It’s looking up at the stars. Or is it looking down at them? It could be either one, I suppose. It’s also hard to say what, exactly, it is. It’s an alien, of course, we’ve already figured that out — but anything beyond the vague label of ‘alien’ is out of our current grasp.It has a thin, spindly body, hunched over, crouching. It’s bipedal and has a roughly humanoid shape — the sort of body we can recognise, more or less. It’s not completely dissimilar from us, but it’s different enough to be recognised as other. Its knees are bent, hands res...

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“The World Under The Stars” by Deborah Angevin

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After a long, tiring Friday, I changed into my favourite moon-patterned pyjamas, then snuggled myself into the blanket. I gazed at the night sky; the ones painted on my rooftop, along with several star-shaped lights hanging from it. My eyelid is gradually closing down, my mind slowly drifted away. That time when I am half-asleep, I uttered a little wish from the bottom of my heart.I want to sleep under the actual stars.---Click!All of sudden, both of my eyes are opened. I saw the night sky, along with an unknown young boy wearing a blue...

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“The Stars Above” by Vicky S

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Turning onto her back, Jade slowly opened both eyes.The sky was an inky, velvety black and the stars a bright silver white. The Milky Way was above her head. She could see more than when she was in the city, surrounded by neon lights and skyscrapers.Breathing deeply, she placed her hands behind her head and scanned the sky for a shooting star.You never knew.It was a warm night, too warm to be under cover but the buzz of a mosquito flying past her ear, made her snuggle down further in the swag.There were still bright embers burning in the cam...

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“The One Who Created the Stars” by Keri Dyck

Submitted to Contest #39

The stars up above are unchanging. Reliable. Beautiful. Unsympathetic. Cassia watches them, not daring to move. Hardly daring to breathe. Wishing she could force her heart to stop pumping. Anything is too loud. She closes her eyes. The starlight will glint off them and make her more visible. Life is more valuable than sight. Hearing is still accessible. Grasses rustle somewhere to her left. Where her mother is. There is a gasp. A scuffle. A man’s voice. A man who is not her father. Her father is dead already, by the hands of his co...

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“The Hawthorn Grove” by Neha Dubhashi

Submitted to Contest #39

The sky was ripe with meaty, silver-speckled pinpoints of light and magic. Summer June heat flooded my roots, leaving my eight-year-old trunk sighing and whispering in warm rumbles. The grove was quiet tonight. Silence for the long-anticipated festival of the year—Dance of the Stars. The title was self-explanatory. Stars would put on a show for one night, and whoever saw it would go home blessed. Some called it superstition or a tourist attraction—most of the unbelievers being ones who’d waited for hours underneath the dusky sky, only to fal...

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“In the Stars.” by Marsha Webb

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Marianne and Bobby lay on their backs on a fluffy blanket and gazed up at the stars. Marianne shyly squeezed Bobby` s hand and turned her face towards him. She had a huge smile on her face she could not believe how lucky she was; the last few weeks had been the best of her life.Three weeks ago Marianne was a nobody, a shy, studious pupil blending in the background who happened to have a locker three away from Bobby Prior’s. Bobby was the best looking, most popular boy in the school. He was tall, blond, tanned and muscular with the deepest gr...

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