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Mirror Moon  
by Alex Grehy

Oh moon, so cool, so lovely,

taking the day’s light from the

far side of the world and 

gifting it to my night.

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How I trusted you.

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Oh moon, defusing the sun’s

furnace glow, cooling its 

burning torch, softening to 

diffuse white its yellow inferno.

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I thought you were eternal.

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Oh moon, peaceful in dusty dormancy,

forced to ignite in the sun’s reddening fury 

as its own death drew near, expanding 

like an indrawn breath, ready to roar.

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I thought you could resist.

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Oh moon, caught in the sun’s death throes, 

your surface melted to glass, brilliant, a 

convex mirror, you shone brighter, larger.  

We flocked to witness your enhanced beauty.

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I thought you would bless the darkness.

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Oh moon, radiant mirror, silvered, wide focus reflecting

both light and fierce heat, excoriating, 

wrapping the globe in fire. All we experienced

was the burning, all we witnessed was the end.

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Oh moon, I thought you were my friend.

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Fiction © Copyright Alex Grehy
Image © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose

More from author Alex Grehy:

Thoughts, Prayers and Other Curses

Alex Grehy (she/her) enjoys writing quirky, thought-provoking horror. Widely published, her latest collection of short stories, Thoughts, Prayers and Other Curses is disturbing, clever and darkly entertaining – a wickedly imaginative journey through ten stories where time and technology have given humankind the chance to be kind, but why bother when there’s always an option to be beastly?

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