Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Supernova Shelton

We worked our way through trays of food and chocolate-dipped strawberries, bottle after bottle of Chilean wine, and ended up closing the party we’d crashed—accidentally, really—just following the crowd from a public “Supernova Celebration” the university had mounted in an effort to strengthen their claim on the naming rights to SN 1987a, to lobby government support for their foundering observatory, to fete the unassuming grad student who’d been looking there anyway and was only lucky enough to be first on the phone to the proper authorities…to toast a sun that had died more than 160,000 years ago.

Image source: Space Fellowship

21 comments:

  1. For the month of July, the members of Exquisite Corpse are writing 100 words a day on each letter of the alphabet in turn.

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  2. a SPECIAL designation of a SPENT SUN!
    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  3. Here's to toasting dead suns!!!!

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  4. Very Interesting.

    Shoes, have a happy Thanksgiving!

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  5. Bottles of Chilean wine ... and you found the way ! Congratulations !

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  6. Ah.. really that toast came a little late.. but so perfect to celebrate in arrears.

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  7. Sounds like a true Super Celebration. How fun.

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  8. Oooh, I like that naughty ironical final clause...

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  9. What a wonderful closing... toasting a sun that had died so long ago! A very poetic thought and image.

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  10. Very interesting. considering how long it takes the light to get to us, any of these toasts would be "late".

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  11. a great flash - your story and that dying sun

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  12. Ha! Love your flash fiction on the "exquisite corpse" of a dead star.

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  13. what an interesting read specially the end...

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  14. I like this, especially the last line.

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  15. Nice take on the prompt with the focus on that one supernova. Peace, Linda

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  16. ..love the chocolate-dipped strawberries and Chilean wine...wonderful jest!

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  17. Star dust passes
    lives in veins
    of us..
    passes
    we back
    to STarT..:)

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