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BOB THURBER: The Nose Twitching Scent Of Gladness (The Continuing Misadventures of The Broken Boys)

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Single file the boys descend a slope packed with spruce and pines. There’s no path, no clear trail. Pushing through, the needles tickle more than scratch. Tonight, the boys will make camp in the valley — where no shadows live, other than night itself — beneath a widespread blue-grey wonderland of stars.

Bob Thurber is the author of six books. Regarded as a master of Flash and Micro Fiction, his work has appeared in Esquire and other magazines, been anthologized 60 times, received a long list of awards, and been utilized in schools and colleges throughout the world. He resides in Massachusetts. Visit his website at BobThurber.net.

AVA BALES: Venus’ Planets

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Venus looks up at empty nothingness. Every night she lays on her back and blows bubbles.

This night, an old, somber man meanders by. He looks up at the iridescent orbs floating up towards the sky. “It reminds me of before,” the old man whispers, “when there were still stars to see.”

Ava Bales is a 13-year-old Creative Writing student. She reads and writes short stories in her spare time. She has won zero awards and her writing has yet to be published.

SHARDIA: Isolated Stars

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The stars that lie just outside the window seem so close, but as morning emerges from its journey the black abyss is taken over by the flaming sun, forcing the stars into hibernation.

Still the moon stays put, isolated in the bright morning sky, waiting for the stars to return.

Shardia enjoys writing short fiction stories.

 

BRANDON NEWMAN: Hell on Earth 1945

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Crimson dyed the sky. A colossal, drowning black rushed to overtake it. Into the heavens two colors fought, masking bloody fires below. In time, I will forget the explosion, the names of the dead, even the blinding light, but the battle between red and black will own the skies forever.

Brandon Newman is a senior at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ.

Painting the Night Sky

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He didn’t know it worked: one night he’d simply pointed at the sky, and a star had appeared, bright and new.

It was a great party trick, of course, and it stimulated his inner artist, but he didn’t fully harness the potential of his god-like ability until he went commercial.