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Loneliness of a Wandering Star by David Huebert
The first thing the strange blue planet remembered was water and land and wanting its mother. But there was no mother. Was there a mother? Oh, the agony of doubt! Epochs passed. The fangs of uncertainty grew dull. The planet started to think of itself as the centre of things. Soon it became amazed by its own magnificence, and it shouted, “Everything revolves around me!” This satisfied the planet for some time, but then it grew curious. “What is the meaning of existence?” it wondered. “Why do I think? What is the nature of life as a thinking being?” Finding no easy answers to these questions, it was depressed for a time, and then it grew lonely. Examining its body in search of companions, the planet found strange reptiles crawling all over it. The planet rejoiced, imagining an end to its solitude, but these reptiles did little to assuage its loneliness. They crawled across the planet for a long, long time, and eventually they started to cause an irritating tickle. Soon enough, the itch became unbearable. The planet had to sneeze, and after it did so, it looked up to find that all the reptiles had perished…

 

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