Title: The Girl Who Spoke in Stars
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 181 words.
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She was born in a village where words were currency, where stories were measured in weight and worth. But the girl did not speak in words.
When she opened her mouth, constellations tumbled out. Cassiopeia curled along her tongue; Orion’s belt unbuckled in her breath. She whispered, and a sky unfolded, deep and endless, studded with light.
The villagers feared her. They traded in sharp syllables and easy explanations, and her language was too vast, too distant. They told her to speak properly, to shape her stars into sentences, but she could not press galaxies into grammar.
So she left.
She walked until the ground grew thin and the sky close enough to touch. She climbed the night like a staircase, stepping onto clouds spun from moonlight. She became a streak in the dark, a voice in the quiet.
And now, when people look up at the stars and think they hear something—a whisper. A sigh. A name they once knew but have long since forgotten.
That is the girl who spoke in stars. Still telling stories. Still speaking light.
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