THE DAY THE STARS WENT OUT: A STORY TO READ OR TELL
THE DAY THE STARS WENT OUT (Marilyn A. Hudson, 2003)A story where the audience decides what happens next.
Deep in the darkest corner of space there was a cluster of stars. They stayed together all the time lighting up their own corner of space. They watched all the space travelers as they sailed past :The comets on their long journeysThe asteroids plodding through spaceThe planets on their courses around the sunAnd the clouds of gas chasing each other through space.One star, however, always felt that the others stars were just too bright and too far away to notice him. He was just an ordinary star…nothing special….just a little splinter of light in the darkness of space. If I went dark tomorrow no one would notice. I am so ordinary he would think to himself:I am not a comet on its long journeyI am not an asteroid plodding through spaceI am not a planet following its course around the sunAnd I am not one of the clouds of gas chasing each other through space.The star became so convinced that he was not important that one day he suddenly went out…POP….The other stars looked at each other in confusion….oh no….they would never be as bright now as they had been with one less star….never, never!One by one the stars felt less and less important and one by one they went out too.POP, POP, POP!Into the darkest corner of space, now even darker than before, sailed theComets on their long journeysThe asteroid plodding through spaceThe planets on their courses around the sunAnd the clouds of gas chasing each other through space.“It is so dark” they said. They passed the space where the now darkened stars huddled feeling so sorry for themselves.“Where are the bright stars who guide us and say hello?” said the comets as they passed.“How can we see where we are going?” asked the asteroids as they sailed through the inky black space.“It is so dark” -they said as they passed the space where the stars went out. "Where are you.....?
What do YOU think happened next?
THE DAY THE STARS WENT OUT (Marilyn A. Hudson, 2003)A story where the audience decides what happens next.
Deep in the darkest corner of space there was a cluster of stars. They stayed together all the time lighting up their own corner of space. They watched all the space travelers as they sailed past :The comets on their long journeysThe asteroids plodding through spaceThe planets on their courses around the sunAnd the clouds of gas chasing each other through space.One star, however, always felt that the others stars were just too bright and too far away to notice him. He was just an ordinary star…nothing special….just a little splinter of light in the darkness of space. If I went dark tomorrow no one would notice. I am so ordinary he would think to himself:I am not a comet on its long journeyI am not an asteroid plodding through spaceI am not a planet following its course around the sunAnd I am not one of the clouds of gas chasing each other through space.The star became so convinced that he was not important that one day he suddenly went out…POP….The other stars looked at each other in confusion….oh no….they would never be as bright now as they had been with one less star….never, never!One by one the stars felt less and less important and one by one they went out too.POP, POP, POP!Into the darkest corner of space, now even darker than before, sailed theComets on their long journeysThe asteroid plodding through spaceThe planets on their courses around the sunAnd the clouds of gas chasing each other through space.“It is so dark” they said. They passed the space where the now darkened stars huddled feeling so sorry for themselves.“Where are the bright stars who guide us and say hello?” said the comets as they passed.“How can we see where we are going?” asked the asteroids as they sailed through the inky black space.“It is so dark” -they said as they passed the space where the stars went out. "Where are you.....?
What do YOU think happened next?
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