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Where the Stars Glint

Nicholas Kyle Edwards

Dec 29, 2024

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Where the Stars Glint

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He was outside,

in a clearing,

a forgotten patch of earth

where the trees bowed low,

their branches skeletal against the soft moonlight.

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He sat on a log,

it's bark rough,

it's surface scarred with the memory of storms.

Beneath his boots, the ground was damp,

dirt and leaves clinging like secrets

that refused to be shaken loose.

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Beside him,

a rusted lantern hung from an iron hook,

its glass clouded,

casting faint, flickering light

on a tin box of treasures,

edges bent and corners worn,

and a battered journal,

its pages dog-eared,

ink smudged by careless fingers.

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Ash trailed across the mossy ground,

a breadcrumb path of spent moments,

leading to a hollow stump

where the embers of an abandoned fire

smoldered in quiet defiance.

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The air was sharp,

biting with the edge of the night's end,

but above,

the stars.

unpolluted,

untouched,

they spilled across the sky

like a shattered mirror,

glittering fragments strewn over the abyss.

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There was something eternal in their glow,

something vast,

ancient,

omniscient.

They glinted of worlds unseen,

of time that doesn't bend to mortal hands,

and for a moment,

he wondered if the stars knew him,

or if he was just another thought,

forgotten before the dawn.

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Table of Contents

#1 Ashes and Reverie

#2 Strings of Fate

#3 Shadows of Opposition

#5 Strings of Ignorance

#6 Shadows We Inherit

#7 Restless Light

#8 The Hollow Gaze

#9 The Echo of Stars

#10 Coastline Reverie

#11 The Passage of Time

#12 Chasing Empty Stars

#13 The Water Cycle

#14 The Unseen Creation

#15 Caught in the Net

#16 Tide of the Hollow

#17 The Roar Between Waves

#18 Cloth of Illusion

#19 First Love, Sand

#20 Eternal Embrace

#21 The Bargain

#22 Where the Stars Glint

#23 Morning Reverie

#24 The Price of Power

#25 Learning to Love

#26 In the Dark