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The Stars are Missing

It felt like a new moon night. The stars refused to shine. No matter how hard we looked, they just weren’t there.

We broke out the magnifying glass, zoomed it in and out.. Still nothing. What happened to the stars?

Poets wrote odes begging for the stars forgiveness. They still refused to show themselves.

Cloaked in whiteness they stayed in their apparent shells.

We started clicking violently to add them, but to no avail.

Even adding them in verse a 5 stars here, then a 10 stars there. But ,even taunting the stars found no results.

Stars come back. We chanted to our screens. But the stars laughed at us.

We wandered lost around the website, reading comments and hoping for sequels. At this point we’d love a prequel.

The stars are the icing on top of our proverbial cake. We write for fun, but we’d love to see the stars again!

(Okay. I admit it. I am having star withdrawals…. Is it just me? Maybe I should use this for my BB4L challenge. :) )

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