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Planet 6257
My telescope wobbled as I set in on my windowsill. Jae, my younger sister, stood beside me. Crouching down, I look into the eye of the telescope.
I’ve always wanted a change in my life. Novaturient, I think the word is. Every single time, it’s the same daily routine: get up, eat, change, go to school, come back, homework, sleep. After a while, it gets boring; I think we all agree with that.
The stars glimmer, and I think I see a shooting star. Jae says she saw it, too. It’s ephemeral, going as soon as it came. No time for wishes, I tell my sister. It’s time for making dreams into reality.
Looking back to my telescope, I aim farther than the stars. Planets blur my vision, as I look for what I came for - a bright, fire red surface.
Planet 6257.
Nobody knows if it’s real, not even the astronauts. However, I believe, and my sister does too, and we’re going to prove to everyone what we believe is true.
“I think I see it!” I exclaim, as a dark, blood red hue comes into view. Hurriedly, we run to the garage, grabbing all the parts we’ve gathered for this.
Cardboard, stone, coal and wood. All these little bits and pieces, we put together, to make a rocket. To me, it’s gorgeous; I don’t know what my sister thinks, though.
Just like in the movies, and the books I’ve read too many times to count, we say at the top of our lungs, “3… 2… 1… lift off!”
Swerving around stars, curving around planets. Absolutely beautiful. Serene, and silent, too. It’s mellifluous, a perfect melody of calm. A perfect home for creatures of the galaxy. However, that’s not what we came for.
Confusingly, I can’t see Planet 6257 anymore. After a long while, my sister convinces me that it is no more. Maybe another day, she says. Tears in my eyes, I nod, and she pilots the rocket to home.
When we land, back in our garden, we look up to the sky and we see Planet 6257 once more. Realisation hits me, that Planet 6257 doesn’t truly exist. It’s all a syzygy, an aligning of the worlds. Funnily, I’d learnt about this in Science. A feeling of hiraeth hits me in the guts.
A lunar eclipse. When the Moon is aligned in the middle of the Earth and the Sun, it becomes red.
I finally understand.
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The topic was, "traveling to another planet".
I know this is like really short especially since I usually post extra long stories but I was only given like 20 minutes okay like I'm sorry mate but when it's 7 in the morning and you're given only 20 minutes to write a story it's obviously not gonna be good and yes I purposely made this a run-on sentence so you'd hopefully be out of breath by the time you get to the end which is right here.
Have a good day. Or a great day. Or an ineffable day. I dunno. What kind of day do you prefer? Or do you prefer the s♥♥♥ty days? I don't like s♥♥♥ty days but I get them the most. Do you?
By the way no stealing please or you can go die in a hole with ferocious kittens kthxbai.
EDIT: Please don't ask the origin of the name, "Planet 6257". Just don't okay? Cool. If you do, you can do like a thief and die in a hole with ferocious kitties too. If you don't, you get free cookies. Forever. Unless you don't like cookies. Then, cupcakes. Don't like cupcakes either? Um. Have some bananas.
The topic was, "traveling to another planet".
I know this is like really short especially since I usually post extra long stories but I was only given like 20 minutes okay like I'm sorry mate but when it's 7 in the morning and you're given only 20 minutes to write a story it's obviously not gonna be good and yes I purposely made this a run-on sentence so you'd hopefully be out of breath by the time you get to the end which is right here.
Have a good day. Or a great day. Or an ineffable day. I dunno. What kind of day do you prefer? Or do you prefer the s♥♥♥ty days? I don't like s♥♥♥ty days but I get them the most. Do you?
By the way no stealing please or you can go die in a hole with ferocious kittens kthxbai.
EDIT: Please don't ask the origin of the name, "Planet 6257". Just don't okay? Cool. If you do, you can do like a thief and die in a hole with ferocious kitties too. If you don't, you get free cookies. Forever. Unless you don't like cookies. Then, cupcakes. Don't like cupcakes either? Um. Have some bananas.
bananas for all *gives out bananas*