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Home About Me Biography Art My Poetry Other Fiction Digital Art Gallery essays topics topics topics autobiographical Stories Blog cweth@cweth.com		StarVan by Cweth Michel Star Van Faerytale about a little girl who goes on a journey through space and time to seek excitement and knowledge. She thinks really hard one day, after looking up at the stars, about how to get up there w/o rocket power and builds a wheeled space ship which she pushes off the edge of the world, rides off and falls through the most marvelous adventure ever written. -the people who greet her with disbelief on her way to the edge -the places she sees and the beings she meets in space -starvation, drugs and alchohol -attempted rapes -giving herself freely -giving herself costly -crashing to earth, visiting mother, and working on her "rocket power" Once upon a time there was a little girl who loved to stare up at the stars. She dreamed of one day flying through the cosmos on a grand adventure, and meeting all kinds of aliens who were far more peaceful than the humans were, and her name was Jonah. Jonah came from a small village in a hatefilled northern kingdom called Adanac. Her father was a kindly trapper who always loved her, adn would take her out with him when he went out to work. They would talk to each other about the stars and the planets, and she would help him set the traps and check them. At night-time they would sleep in a clearing where they could count the falling stars, and look for constellations. On a day when they were supposed to be going out to check the traplines, Jonah's father called her to his chamber. "yes father?" She asked him. "Jonah, you know I love you, right?"He asked her in response. "Of course I know that, father." "I want you to know that I will be dying soon, I can feel it coming. I am sick, and there can be no cure." "Father, don't say such things. You are the strongest man in the World, and surely sickness cannot claim one so strong as that. Can a mouse kill a tiger?" She says in disbelief. "Do not argue with fate, for it shall only ever cause you grief. I am dying whether you chose to believe it or not. Now listen to me: I have managed to save a small purse of golds. It was to be your dowry, but I know you would rather be an adventurer than a house wife. This is why I have not given it to your mother, for she would marry you off for sure. Find your salvation..." Her father trailed off and his hand fell open to reveal the gold purse of which he spoke. The life had left him, and she mourned. For a year Jonah never sought to find the salvation she was told to find. She wore black every day, and wondered what he meant. She buried the purse beneath a maple tree in the woods behind their shack, and swore to leave it there until she knew for certain what her salvation would be... Every night she would sneak out of the house to sleep beneath the beautiful clear sky... and on rainy nights, she would stare out her window, and wish she could be on the other side of those damning clouds... so she could see the universe as she always did so long ago with her father. With wonder and happiness. But the happiness would always be gone, she thought, now that it was without her father. After a while though, the happiness did return, and she could look at the stars and enjoy them again. She knew that her Salvation could be found amung them and only amung them. She resolved that night to find a method by which she could transcend the gravity which kept her glued firmly to the earth for so long. She didn't care that it was impossible, she only knew that she would find a way. In the morning , she told her mother that she would be going on a journey of several days to the king's library. Her mother, glad to see her taking an interest in something other than mourning, was more than glad to help her pack away foodstuffs and equipment for her journey. When questioned about the reasons behind her sudden decision, Jonah answered that she needed to know more about the stars that were like beautiful diamonds in the sky. ...Dear Diary, Back at my mother's house since yesterday, and I've been relaxing. Trying to look at my life and decide where to go from here. Rather, I'm trying to decide where to stay from here. My crazy StarVan has taken me across the great and not so great universe, and I've returned to the shack of my birth.

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