Creative Writing: Module 11: A Short Story

He flung her head into the night sky and threw her body into the ocean, resulting in the Sky Woman becoming Grandmother moon.

"None of this was planned. The universe played a part in the whole thing, obviously. We just took our cues from the universe and kept moving on."

She cradled me and her baby, telling me what a good companion I was, sitting on her feet, warming them. “You were such a nice cat, a good cat,” she murmured.

“There is No Dark Side of The Moon, Really. Matter of Fact, it’s All Dark”

Man-Never-Known-on-Earth created the land, water, and a man and a woman, Man-With-The-Power-to-Carry-Light and Bright-Shining-Woman. A stranger told Man-With-The-Power-to-Carry-Light that there would be many villages and many people in the future, but it would be up to him. He would be able to do this if he shot a black-and-white deer, so he did, and the stranger’s prediction was true. Bright-Shining-Woman taught the women everything that they would need to know about life and told them to look up into the night sky if they need help. Man-With-The-Power-to-Carry-Light told the men that when they saw him in the morning they were to take their children to drink and bathe in the river. He was the morning star and she was the moon.

Lucy looked up at her Mom. Wondering what they were going to do now. Her mother looked calm. Lucy and Faith looked each other and with a shrug, decided that there was nothing to worry

“Back when I was in school I was always fascinated, about stars and the planets.”

“I am the Moon.” Moon pointed with his tail towards the gigantic rock that orbited the world in a unpredictable pattern. Actually made a lot more sense that the rock had a conscious rather then a scientifically respective pattern that anyone could figure

" Why?" A boy asked, his hazel blue eyes looking at his mother as he snuggles more into her.

"The early universe, really early universe, before the time lords even. That's a generation 1 star!" he said pointing to the sun in the sky. "This is one of the first planets."

This Tipi Moon teaching was organized by Professor Blu Waters, took place in the Tipi in Newnham Campus, and was in the evening of June 15. About fifteen students attended this teaching event. We, including Professor Blu Water, were sitting on Mother the Earth, where all lives from, in a circle in the tipi, with the bonfire in the center.

We listen for a while at the somehow calming, scream-like calls of the animals around us until Amaru turns back to me. “Would you like to hear some of the stories I was told as a child?” I turn over onto my side from where I sprawl on the rock. He looks back and he takes to curiosity on my face as a yes. “On one night, the moon failed to rise

However before the moon was described as bringing light into the child’s room. This contrast perhaps highlights the negative emotions that everyone must ‘carry’, despite the positive, good emotions, creating a balance. Also, by describing the moon as a traveller highlights the potentially infrequent ‘visits’ of the child’s mother, in contrast to most mothers who are a constant part of their child’s life.

A star’s purpose is to illuminate the sky’s darkness as it serves to be the guide when

"Who says it didn't? What I say is that a sun won't last forever. That's all I'm saying. We're safe for twenty billion years, but then what?" Lupov pointed a slightly shaky finger at the other. "And don't say we'll switch to another sun."