The setting sun was an omen. The masses toiled by the sun and enjoyed its life giving warmth but I wondered how many missed the coolness of the night and the other stars that the sun outshone everyday.
As I watched from thousands of miles away, I mused on how many, really had missed me and my journey. Here I was, tracing the same path seventy-six years later; yet it was the daily rise of the golden orb that all living things craved for.
With the bracing yet distant proximity of my journey away from the yellow sphere, I cannot but sigh at the fickleness of the humans.
I am the Comet Halley, returned yet again to trace my blazing path through the heavens! Do you see me?
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Less and less with each passage across the Sun since the comet loses some of its substance each time.
Fun fact: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) was born in 1835, the year that Halley’s comet approached Earth and the died in 1910 during the comet’s next visitation.
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Wow, I didn’t know the Mark Twain backstory. Thanks for that James!
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Great story! Seeing the world through the eyes of Halley’s Comet!
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Thanks Joy
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What a trip to get to go on! What that comet must have seen!
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Haha. True, we are centuries away from the tech that’ll let us know for sure
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Looking down at the earth through the Comet’s eyes? Wow! A splendid read.
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Thanks Sudha
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Wonderfully imaginative.
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Thanks Moon
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Now you see me now you don’t – too soon you won’t. Clever!
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😁 thanks Keith
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A very imaginative take.
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Thanks yarnspinnerr
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Your story is very imaginative. You prompt us to think of the coolness of the night – and the wistfulness of human migrants for their homeland. All this artfully conceals the identity of the narrator, Halley’s Comet, until you choose to reveal it in the final paragraph.
Well done!
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Thanks Penny!
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Brilliant! You need more followers!
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