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.
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For the month of July, the members of Exquisite Corpse are writing 100 words a day on each letter of the alphabet in turn.
ReplyDeleteAdded to ABC Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteCool
ReplyDeletea SPECIAL designation of a SPENT SUN!
ReplyDeleteROG, ABC Wednesday team
Here's to toasting dead suns!!!!
ReplyDeleteVery Interesting.
ReplyDeleteShoes, have a happy Thanksgiving!
Bottles of Chilean wine ... and you found the way ! Congratulations !
ReplyDeleteAdded to dVerse Poets Pub—Star Light, Star Bright.
ReplyDeleteAh.. really that toast came a little late.. but so perfect to celebrate in arrears.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a true Super Celebration. How fun.
ReplyDeleteOooh, I like that naughty ironical final clause...
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful closing... toasting a sun that had died so long ago! A very poetic thought and image.
ReplyDeleteSuch an intriguing write :D
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. considering how long it takes the light to get to us, any of these toasts would be "late".
ReplyDeletea great flash - your story and that dying sun
ReplyDeleteHa! Love your flash fiction on the "exquisite corpse" of a dead star.
ReplyDeletewhat an interesting read specially the end...
ReplyDeleteI like this, especially the last line.
ReplyDeleteNice take on the prompt with the focus on that one supernova. Peace, Linda
ReplyDelete..love the chocolate-dipped strawberries and Chilean wine...wonderful jest!
ReplyDeleteStar dust passes
ReplyDeletelives in veins
of us..
passes
we back
to STarT..:)