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Hugo and Me on the Moon by Pete Able

January 17, 2018August 12, 2019 literallystories2014

I was on the moon all alone. Looking out the window the weather was always the same—moony. The terrain, too, was all moony. It could have been lovely but for the utter mooniness of it all.

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