Seven sisters

 Light pollution. That’s the name for  what happens when man-made lights outshine the stars.

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 Seven Sisters  is… I’m not really sure how to explain it. Is it a story about the Pleiades star cluster? Yes and no. Is it about the power of mythology?… Kind of.  Is it a metaphor that tells the story of a teenage girl coming to terms with her father‘s death? I honestly don’t know if it’s a metaphor or not.  I just sort of…  decided to write a story about stars  going dark,  and this is what I ended up with.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a beautiful story and I love it. I’m just not sure what my intention was with it, and I’m not sure just how much of the story was real and how much was imaginary. I think every reader will get something different from the story, but here is what I personally get from:

It sucks to lose a parent. Both of my parents are still alive, but I’ve still lost them  because they aren’t in my life anymore. Not in any real, concrete way  like they used to be.  So what do you do when the people you have relied on your entire life to protect you…  are just gone one day? What do you do? How do you deal with these emotions?

 The relationship between a father and daughter in my story is very much based on my own father and I. We were best friends, he loved science and making up stories, and then he just wasn’t part of my life anymore.  It was for the best, at the time, but I still went through long periods of missing him and wishing I could ask him for advice when life got complicated.