How They Shine For You
written by ✧Aurora Lovecraft✧
Aurora Lovecraft's next short story revolves around the mysterious ways of the moon and stars and how much they may reveal about you - to others, as well as yourself. After all, a certain darkness is needed to see the stars and make a wish.
Last Updated
05/31/21
Chapters
4
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307
The Moon.
Chapter 2
I adjust the tripod, latching all the legs in place before mounting the weight of the telescope on top, just the way he once showed me a thousand times. I carefully set in the eyepiece through which I look when adjusting the crosshairs of the finder - that miraculously still works - in a particular direction. My hands find the star charts stashed underneath the case, slightly hesitating to look at them. It’s just as I thought. His handwriting is sprinkled, no, crammed throughout every page, his own notes and diagrams filling every crevice of blank space around the charts. The black ink on one corner of the page starts to bleed out in a wet trail along the edge as a tear I wish I could take back collides with it.
After harshly wiping my eyes, I look through the eyepiece while shifting the direction of the mount in the direction of the first night sky object of my choice to admire. Every other astronomer always seeks out what’s beyond our solar system, the mythical extraterrestrial worlds we only dream about through sci-fi just waiting out there to be discovered. But the moon has had always been mine. During every night of my childhood before, when I’d never failed to explore the night sky with him, I’d never tire of admiring its radiant glow, its rays that would kiss my cheeks ever more so softly than the sun. Even from my bedroom window, I’d squint my eyes to get a closer look at its craters, maybe even to catch a glimpse of its hidden dark side. I always wondered what the moon needed to hide beneath its dark side. I used to dream every night that I would journey to the moon one day, that I would discover the mystery of what the moon hides underneath its dark side. I don’t have that dream anymore.
