The Day the Sun Went Down
Part I
by
Susan E. Eskdale
(Age: 38)
copyright 06-14-2001
Age Rating: 7 to 17
Part I:
She sat listening to the sound of the crickets singing their nightly melody. The sky turned to midnight blue and the stars twinkled brightly in the Northern Sky. The Northern lights were even more beautiful than she had ever remembered seeing them. Her memories of childhood were somewhat fuzzy, but she clearly remembered sitting on the porch with her father watching the stars twinkling and gazing into the moonlit night.
It was nearly twenty years ago that she first asked her father about the Northern Lights. Her father was a burly man, but still somehow he seemed to possess the gentlest nature of anyone she ever met. He spoke softly to Shelby and regaled her with the story of the Northern lights. All these years later she couldn’t recall the story itself but she clearly recalled the warmth in her father’s voice.
That night was the last night that contained memories of her and her father. It was not that long afterwards that her father was killed in an automobile accident. Her mother was not the sort to want to spend time outside, she felt that indoor activities were more becoming of a young lady and she was not going to raise a tomboy. It would take until well into her adulthood before she allowed herself to be swept up by the stars again.
Now, in her thirties, Shelby had rediscovered her connection with the night sky. She could tell you when the full moon was due, when harvest moons would light up the night sky, when meteors would fall and when weather changes were due. Sometimes she thought that she should have studied astrology, but instead she studied advanced Mathematics. Numbers were something no one could ever take away from her because they were concrete and therefore would never be seen as a make believe world of a dreamer.
Now, after all these years, her studies brought her full circle back to the night skies she fell in love with as a child. The concrete nature of math combined with the careful calculations of astronomy made for interesting studies. With astronomy you could never be sure that the result that you forecasted would actually be correct, but with mathematics, Shelby could be sure that the formulas and their results would be verifiable through the laws and rules of the already proven mathematical geniuses that came before she took up the study.
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This is a very nice beginning! You really made it flow nicely and the descriptions are very good. You only didn't say how Shelby looks. other than that, you did a very good job with this. The Roman Numerals give it an oriental touch. This seems to be a promising story! lol, I liked that "...coming soon to a computer screen near you..." :) I'm off to the next chapter! good work, keep writing! I wonder why nobody gave you praise?
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