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Weekly Contest #8
By Christa McCormick There’s no moon out and the midsummer sky is so clear that I can see the Milky Way. I love that name. The Milky Way. I can just imagine an astronaut floating around in space with a glass of milk in his hand. All of a sudden he trips over a shooting star and his glass spills, breaking the liquid apart in a million white beads, speckled against the stellar sky. “Would you look at those stars,” my Papa says as we walk together towards the rusted blue chevy truck. The air is cool and alive with the sound of singing crickets...
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