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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 Starry Highway” by Felicity Edwards

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 Groping his way to the front of the enormous cave and stepping around the low individual family hearths, the old shaman carefully lifted the Auroch hide hanging over the entrance. He stood for a while gazing up at the pallid full moon hanging like a gossamer orb in the pearly dawn sky. For weeks, clouds hid the sky and its stars. Now, at last, they had drawn back to reveal this glorious pale moon and her twinkling handmaidens. It was still bitterly cold and he shivered, despite his warm fur jacket, as he silently made his way over to h...

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“Night Classes” by Raven T

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People had too much to say about stars, the way he saw it. Out here, after night classes, he could see couples kissing, children running, old men with scraggly beards strolling and pointing – all with something to say about the salt specks littering that vast expanse of darkness above. Their voices would fall onto a bed of cool air. Then these would fall between the hairs of grass, where he often lay down, relaxing after a test.Guren would plug in his earphones, and think about the people thinking about stars.One of these nights, after Frenc...

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“Starry Silence- By Anou Swami” by Anou S

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I glared up at the glimmering stars in the sky. "Stupid things!" I muttered, kicking at a pebble in my backyard. "Stupid stars, stupid stargazing party, stupid dad, stupid mom, stupid sister! Ugh!""Are-are you okay, Teri?" My best friend Paris India Rockefeller(her parents love to travel) tapped me gently on the shoulder."I'm fine!" I whirled around to face her, pushing her hand away harshly. "What do you want?!" I quickly regretted it when my sensitive friend burst into tears. "I'm so sorry, Pary. I just- you know-" I paused, thinking of th...

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“In the Stars” by ♡ Tana ♡

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She was watching the stars again. She believed that they held secrets in them, perhaps even words spelled out across the dusky canvas of the sky, waiting for someone with the patience to read them. When the world didn’t make any sense, and she felt like no one understood her, she would go onto the roof at night and watch the stars. Sometimes she would almost believe that she could see the messages, but she could never fully understand them, which she blamed on the wine she would always be drinking during those stargazing sessions. On that ni...

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“The City lights” by Guille Escalona

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The stars in the sky remind me of city lights, I wonder if I will see my city again. For a second, I can escape and wonder what is out there, hiding behind those city lights. For a second, I forget that I have not eaten in more than ten days. People can survive more than a month without food, I do not know if that brings me comfort or grief. I crawl back into my makeshift shelter and I go to sleep.I wake up feeling well. I remember that I will die soon and my perpetual headache returns. I guess I’ll look for food. I begin to write my story. ...

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“With Isabel” by Caroline G

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The marsh hummed and glittered and throbbed, it crooned and stretched and rumbled, and she could not notice. She flitted between darknesses through the fluttering of her eyes, from the immense blue-black punctuated by dots of light, to the blackness inside her eyelids, which dragged traces of the stars’ glow into her sight. Drops of dew constellated the outline of her horizontal figure. She cast a glance sideways.           “Please talk to me.”       &n...

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“Starry Starry Night ” by AL Paradiso

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The night sky is always so enchanting, mysterious and full of wonder even to a scientist like me. “Lying on this blanket with you, on this mountain, and watching the sun drop behind the clouds, beyond the horizon below us is a resplendent high. Witnessing the sky turn brilliant oranges, and reds with grey shadows, and streaks of gold is always mesmerizing. When that moment passes and the gloaming sky turns into a velvety, diamond-studded, serene mantle, dreams and dreamers change. Yet, it is still romantic. Isn’t it Dawn?” “Yes, Al. It seem...

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“Racing the Stars” by Margaret Kopke

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Sonnanqua was tethered to a tree, and as he waited, whittling away at the thong around his neck, he gazed up at the stars to distance himself from the horror of what was happening on the earth, to the screams and bloodthirsty shouts coming from the San village. The sky that night was devoid of any moon and there was only the faint light of the stars. He prayed to the great hunter father to help him. Three stars of the great one’s arrow pointed towards the east.   Sonnanqua’s own people had been slaughtered only a week before and he...

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“Wandering Souls ” by Nathalie Vidler

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The darkness was incomplete, a few lonely celestial bodies poked out from the clouds that attempted to hide them. I looked out at them and felt as if I were one. A lonely star in the dark sky. “Hey you!” The voice was harsh, probably drunk, “Trash! Get out of this side of town.”I shook my head and walked around the being that had just been thrown out of the pub. He was halfway covered in his own mess, barely managing to stagger to his feet. I might be looking for a fight, but not that badly. He tried to grab at me, but it would have been a m...

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“The Moonkeeper” by Carmen Friesen

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The sun had just gone down, and Simon was on the beach, making a sandcastle. A salty breeze came in from the water, and he could hear seagulls in the distance. The sandcastle was in the shape of a circle, and had lots of windows he’d poked in with this finger. There was no moat, but in the middle there was a space in which he’d dug a lake and filled it with water. He was trying to model the castle after one he’d seen in a dream, but it was hard to remember the details. The quiet of the evening was nice. He could listen to the sound of the wa...

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“Beyond Repair” by Zara Khan

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I finally took off the ring. It glistened under the night sky as I twirled it between my fingers. The object which I had once been so elated to receive, now looked back at me with pity. I don’t think I can do this. I couldn’t say a word and he couldn’t even look me in the eye.The stars seemed brighter tonight. He loved to stargaze and I loved to watch him look up at the sky in wonder. I couldn’t watch him anymore. Our first anniversary together and he said there was nothing we couldn’t fix together. He lied.He should have tried harder. But h...

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“THE LAST TIME I SAW THE STARS” by Duong Duy Khang

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                                  THE LAST TIME I SAW THE STARSMargaret, Alex’s girlfriend, she had just died a week ago. He and her mom were cleaning Margaret’s room together when he went by Margaret’s diary. He opened and read the last lines she had written:“When I was a child, my father would tell me a story every night. I still remembered every story ended with dad telli...

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“To a new starry life!” by Sadie Brooke

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I lay staring up at the dark blanket studded with sparkling silver. The feeling of paralysis encapsulates me dragging me to the world of dark hell hole. I lay immobile letting my inner turmoil churn till the fire extinguish and what remains is only the smouldering ash. The anguish in me does not simmer but continue to ablaze as I jot lines between events that occurred like connecting the stars to forming a clear constellation.  The visions are no longer hazy. As I continue to gaze up at the night sky, I finally let the reality...

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“The Wish” by Adelyn Russell

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I was lying under the coal black sky, staring at the stars, wishing the ground wasn’t so hard, that crickets would stop that leg rubbing and my parents wouldn’t send me on camping trips in the middle of nowhere. I sighed. No use now. I was stuck out here and that’s all there was to it. I shivered and pulled my cap closer around my ears.  The whole reason I was out in the shivering cold, close to midnight anyway was because of our camp leader, Joe Hobbs. He said if I wished upon a star at midnight it would come true. I had laughed, ...

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“Escaping” by Britt Michielsen

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You look up at the stars, thinking about what you walked away from, what you ran away from, what you desperately needed to get away from.What would you have done otherwise? It’s not like you had a choice. You didn’t want to do it anymore. You just couldn’t. People using you and exploiting you, you just had enough. You needed to get out, even if that meant risking your own life in the process. But if you didn’t escape, they would have killed you anyway. Think about it, this was the only way to safe your life.You grew up in that horrible place...

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