I know you still dream of space, as if there’s more hope where the stars are and no distance between us. I’m sorry I had to leave. We both know making homes in heartbeats only lead to clichés, like standing outside your window, crying in the rain. I swear, in another life, it’s us who […]
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She breathed and the trees sighed in unison, She blinked and the stars flickered back. She laughed and the birds sang along. She touched the universe with her hands, And the ground cracked beneath her feet.
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One spring morning, I watched a star fall out of the sky, closer than it’d usually come, and that very evening, before it crawled back up to the night, I developed a strange aching that I couldn’t quite explain. That summer, I took up astrology, and began to cross check my future with the movement […]
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Dimmer stars grow dimmer so, And the sky reeks of black More so, day by day, And the Moon gently smiles For it strives to be the Brightest in the sky, And by every fading star It comes closer to its goal. Astronomers look out with Telescopes, puzzled as to Why their life’s work Are […]
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My science textbook tells me that stars are flaming balls of gas, all but the sun light years away from us, probably dead by the time their light reaches us on Earth. I disagree. They’re not dead. They come alive every night, as I stare out my window and watch them twinkle in the ink-smeared […]
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Sometimes when I lie awake at night, when I grow weary of the electronic hum from my household devices and the symphony of snoring from my parents, I like to pretend I’m a shooting star. Flying miles overhead, away from all the pain and hatred that humans seem to reek of nowadays. I would soar […]
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november has gone: thirty days passed by and i’m still striving. my hands no longer shake from the tragedy inside my lungs but it is not any easier to breathe without aching all over. the pain does not only reside in my chest. but yesterday, the stars lit up the sky, and my mother smiled […]
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Sometimes I think I’m okay. But other (most) times I am an enormous mass, a large amount of misery. It eats me up and breaks me down. But when I look at the stars, I remember that there are countless universes and galaxies. And I know that I will be okay. […]
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“Black Gold” is one of the September Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the stars fell from the sky, burning, turning into grey stardust. All the stars fell from the sky, because some other human-like monsters burned and […]
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