Brody

Sybil Salamander

Josh Hansen

Sean King

A.L. Riddle

English

People were running from something. Something big, something huge. I looked up and saw an asteroid coming straight towards me. Was this the end? Or was there a way to stop it. I hope there is, I had big dreams for my life. Dreams bigger than the asteroid.

My dream was to create a planet definitely bigger than the asteroid hurtling towards me right now.

Suddenly, I started growing large. I gasped. I jumped up and was off the planet, and now the size of a moon. My eyes sparkled. Could I achieve my dream now? I grabbed the asteroid.

And to my surprise the asteroid grabbed me right back. We together became bigger as one as we spun a midnight tango out in space, orbiting to the rhythms of the cosmos. Enraptured, we didn’t even notice spaceships being pulled into our gravity, exploding on impact.

We were two heavenly bodies, literally spinning through space together. More matter fell into our orbit, creating glittering rings around us as we danced through the solar system. “You’re beautiful, baby!”, I whispered as we wheeled. But our delight couldn’t last, because

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