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NICK YOUNG: Epiphany

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As a boy he would steal away from home of a summer’s night and climb upon a wide fence post at the corner of the farmer’s field to sit and wonder at the star-filled sky. Now, as he lay dying, with eyes closed, he beheld the inner firmament and understood.

Nick Young is a retired award-winning CBS News Correspondent. His writing has appeared in the San Antonio Review, Short Story Town, Danse Macabre Magazine, Pigeon Review, CafeLit Magazine, the Green Silk Journal, Typeslash Review, 50-Word Stories, Sein und Werden, Flyover Magazine,, Sandpiper, The Chamber Magazine and Vols. I and II of the Writer Shed Stories anthologies.

LINDA SALDAÑA: By Starlight

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Sleeping outside, away from the din of the city, they had a window into the glitter of a million worlds, and all it took to blast their minds free of Earth-bound problems was to stare into galaxies just hanging there, waiting for the next trillion years to come and go.

Linda Saldaña is an escaped tech writer now addressing the meaning of life 50 words at a time – or maybe a little more. Recent work can be found in Poydras Review and Every Day Fiction.

At Her Bungalow in South Dorset

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She’d forgotten where it came from. Maybe she’d won it in a game of bingo that time she went to Paris…

Now and then it made funny noises when she went down the steps.

It seemed so content, sitting there under her front porch. Her very own happy little universe.

This story was based on this prompt from @Haberley.