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Starlight

Written for Weekend Writing Prompt
where Sammi asks us to get creative
in exactly 28 words using the prompt
word ‘scintilla’, and for Sue & Gerry’s
Weekly Prompts – The One Day Prompt.

Image by Me & Perplexity

One day, a scintilla of starlight fell into her coffee. She drank it anyway.

For weeks after that, her sparkling laugh arrived exactly three seconds before she did.

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28 Words

This is “A Sky Full of Stars” by Coldplay

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