My Girlfriend Is a Nebula
ShortStory 1,102 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"I learned from Bernadette that there are two ways a star can go supernova. The first is in a double star where one partner dies first, turning into a white dwarf, and the surviving partner swells in grief and dumps mass onto the compact star. But the atoms of compact stars can only hold up to a certain limit."
Content warnings 2
death-of-a-loved-oneillness-and-pandemic
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