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Short Story - The Myth of Day and Night

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Before there was stars that shine bright in the sky, a moon that glowed when night had sunk in and sun so bright it casted light onto all surrounding it, there was only a dark atmosphere. People lived in a world of darkness and famine because crops could not grow due to the lack of sunshine. There were three sisters, one named Stella, one named Sole and one named Lunam. Stella and Lunam had bright blonde hair and blue eyes and Sole had bright redish orange hair with hazel eyes. They were very close with each other and did absolutely everything together. They lived in a world where it was dark and cold all the time and nobody thought there was anything wrong with this way of living because they were so accustomed to living this way. However, Stella, Sole and Lunam felt otherwise. Sole was telling her other sisters about how she wished she knew what being warm felt like and what it would be like for her skin to be not so pale. She thought there had to be a way to make this cold, dark life go away. Lunam shared with her sisters that there should be a time where it was cold and a time when it was warm because perhaps some people enjoyed the cold more then being hot. Stella agreed to what Lunam had said. There was this forest at the far end of their father's farm and their parents always told the girls never to go in there because it is dangerous. But the girls knew there had to be more to it then that, they knew there had to be a logical explanation for their parents instructing them not to go there. So one day the sisters were on their father’s farm and they didn’t understand what was so dangerous about this forest so they secretly went wandering off into the woods anyway. They figured if they stayed together then nothing could happen to them. As they were walking through the woods they came across this magnificent tree, which was as tall as can be and had long branches extending out in all different directions. This tree was hu

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