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    Capsule Stories Summer 2021 Edition: Starry Nights
    Capsule Stories Summer 2021 Edition: Starry Nights
    Capsule Stories Summer 2021 Edition: Starry Nights
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    Capsule Stories Summer 2021 Edition: Starry Nights

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    Featuring poetry and prose, Capsule Stories Summer 2021 Edition revolves around the theme Starry Nights. Read summery writings that capture that feeling of wonder that comes from staring up at the stars. These stories and poems ponder new love and late-night conversations as writers explore desire, longing, and nostalgia. Capsule Stories Summer

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapsule Stories
    Release dateJun 1, 2021
    ISBN9781953958051
    Capsule Stories Summer 2021 Edition: Starry Nights

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      Capsule Stories Summer 2021 Edition - Capsule Stories

      Capsule Stories: Summer 2021 EditionCapsule Stories: Summer 2021 Edition

      Masthead

      Natasha Lioe, Founder and Publisher

      Carolina VonKampen, Publisher and Editor in Chief

      April Bayer, Reader

      Stephanie Coley, Reader

      Rhea Dhanbhoora, Reader

      Hannah Fortna, Reader

      Kendra Nuttall, Reader

      Rachel Skelton, Reader

      Deanne Sleet, Reader

      Claire Taylor, Reader

      Cover art by Darius Serebrova

      Book design by Carolina VonKampen

      Ebook conversion by Lorie DeWorken

      Paperback ISBN: 978-1-953958-04-4

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-953958-05-1

      © Capsule Stories LLC 2021

      All authors retain full rights to their work after publication.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, distributed, or used in any manner without written permission of Capsule Stories except for use of quotations in a book review.

      Capsule Stories: Summer 2021 Edition

      Contents

      Letter from the Editors
      Prologue: Starry Nights
      The Things We Know Are There Even When We Cannot See—Isabella J Mansfield
      Night Dive—Emily L. Pate
      Evening in the Shadow of Mount Diablo—Emily L. Pate
      i listen, still, for the sound of the train in the summer—Vic Nogay
      no point in keeping secrets—Vic Nogay
      .soft .process—AJ Buckle
      Stranger Lights—Pamela Nocerino
      After Oysters and Jazz @ 2 a.m.—Pamela Nocerino
      First Date Sonata—Emily Polson
      I Love Your Sonnet—Diana Raab
      Taking My Own Life—Jessica Rapisarda
      Girls on TV—Stella Lei
      Your Ceiling, Covered in Glow-in-the-Dark Constellations—Rebecca Ruvinsky
      Lying on My Back, Looking Up—Rebecca Ruvinsky
      Bouquet—Rebecca Ruvinsky
      west-northwest—Rebecca Ruvinsky
      In the Sweet By and By—Alice Rogers
      Conflagrant—Sher Ting
      Pinpricks—Sarah Ernestine
      The Archive—Sarah Ernestine
      Honey(comb)—Taylor Wyna Stewart
      The Night’s Stars—Natalie Marino
      Firefly Songs—Natalie Marino
      Evanescence—Natalie Marino
      Summer Starlight—Natalie Marino
      Going Home—Natalie Marino
      Should We Stay Up Late on Independence Day—Matthew Miller
      In the Light of Wonder—Jakky Bankong-Obi
      constellations // .—Holly Ruskin
      The Summer Before I Turn Fifty—Kristin Van Tassel
      it must be nice not to believe in god—Joyce Liu
      The Desecrated Wood—Mallory Pearson
      Instead of Sleeping—Mallory Pearson
      A Dirt-Red Star Shaped Like Mars—Mallory Pearson
      painting—Aral L.
      Buoyancy—Emily L. Pate
      Sheltering California—Emily L. Pate
      The Speed of Things—Thomas J. Misuraca
      Honeymooners—Victoria Schofield Dobbs
      The Starfish Is Also a Star—Ismim Putera
      that sea, that salvation—Madison Zehmer
      Sojourners—Anna Caldwell
      Cloak of Night—David Milley
      Across the World—Eileen Lynch
      The State of Things Is This—Eileen Lynch
      Late-Night Drives—Eileen Lynch
      Memory > Sleep—Courtney Moody
      This Sonnet’s Label Was Peeled Off an 8-Track—Courtney Moody
      Days of 2019—Shira Haus
      Late Nights at Susan’s Roadhouse—Shira Haus
      Time Capsule—Shira Haus
      I Remember Us—Jaime Dill
      Est. 2005—Jaime Dill
      Kinetic Kindling—Jaime Dill
      Small World—Ben von Jagow
      Stars and Needles—Ben von Jagow
      Beach Night—Lotte van der Krol
      Contributors
      Editorial Staff
      Submission Guidelines

      Letter from the Editors

      We begin Capsule Stories Summer 2021 Edition with these words from Isabella J Mansfield’s poem The Things We Know Are There Even When We Cannot See:

      sometimes we don’t say

      the words, because

      we already know them

      So much has been written about the night sky over the millennia. We wanted to capture that feeling of awe and wonder that comes from staring up at the stars and exploring your deepest thoughts, and the world beyond yourself. In this edition, you’ll read about taking the long way home at night so you can gaze up at the night sky. Staring up at the stars and feeling a pang of longing in your chest for the person you love. Looking at the stars as a kid and thinking how big and exciting the universe was. Looking at the stars as a grownup and feeling small. The stories and poems in this edition give us the words for these feelings that we already know deeply but don’t always know how to say.

      Prologue

      Starry Nights

      You are lying on the beach, squinting up at the night sky. Voices sound close but feel far away. There are things you cannot control: the orbit of your rock around the sun, how the clouds cast shadows in the sand, how the sky lights up when the planet’s star disappears beyond the horizon. You think about yourself and how you are just a tiny organism who made a home on a floating rock in space. When you look across the water, you can see the stars shining back at you. You think about how weird it is that the stars have been there the whole day, invisible, hiding in plain sight. Sometimes, you imagine yourself in the middle of the ocean, lying on your back, staring up at the stars. You are alone, thinking of the people who have led you here, and your problems become insignificant. As the water wraps around you like a blanket, you realize you are not alone—the stars have been there all along.

      The Things We Know Are There Even When We Cannot See

      Isabella J Mansfield

      light pollution blots out stars

      whose names

      I have never known

      somewhere, thunderheads

      are sweeping in against

      a blue-black sky

      we sit here with bare limbs

      tangled, listening to rain

      beat against glass and steel

      sometimes we don’t say

      the words, because

      we already know them

      Night Dive

      Emily L. Pate

      Dark falls first

      on the ocean, our dive boat

      anchored in the last memory

      of sun as we strap BCDs on,

      take a quick breath of bottled air,

      check gauges. Then the backward

      water-bound leap, hand holding breath

      to my face until all I taste is salt

      and rubber and the surface becomes

      another galaxy. I drift down into night

      of a different breed, stars gone. Here is the infinity

      of the planetarium, the endless other side

      of a telescope. All I see of my father is his T-shirt,

      the drifting white of his sleeves, until

      we twist flashlights on. Life awakes

      in a circle of fluorescence, an eye

      sent out by battery. Fireworms cyclone in the glow.

      Red-spindle legs catch a dart of scaled blue

      and drag into shadow. An octopus shifts orange,

      arms curled, eyes alien and unblinking. Time slips soft

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