> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # we have a story for you - URL: https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/we-have-a-story-for-you-8cf/ - Published: 2025-07-09T16:33:52.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-21T13:28:08.000Z - Description: no.9 - a series of stories we've published - Author: bog bodies press - Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1792589186246, #Import 2026-10-21 13:27 here are two (two!) beautiful poems taking place somewhere in space (or on the way there). we’re delighted to have another platform for our contributors’ work - incredible wide-ranging stories from everywhere that need to be heard. we genuinely love these pieces and can’t wait for you to read them too! here is the ninth of the series, from [mnemotope issue 006.](https://www.bogbodiespress.com/shop-all/p/mnemotope-006?ref=meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com) [Subscribe](#/portal/signup) ![](https://meetingplace.bogbodiespress.com/content/images/2026/10/1ef84dda-d5f5-4d63-9139-7a1aee06d5f9_2643x1888-jpeg-1.jpg) #### U R a star by Catrine ##### All the children gathered in the airplane ##### They were to find their own star ##### And they ##### The stars ##### Were so far up ##### What should I bring for such a flight? ##### They asked each other ##### Hoping the others had the answer ##### The kid with the long beautiful dark hair wanted to bring a backpack ##### In that the kid thought to put in a bottle of sunscreen ##### This kid knew that their star would be very very hot ##### Another kid ##### The one with the soft cheeks and the dimples simply grabbed a pair of sunglasses ##### And pocketed them just before boarding the plane ##### Their star would be a shiny one ##### There were no doubts ##### Then there was the kid with the angular shoulders and ##### The big broad smile ##### This one had no idea how a star would be ##### Especially ones own star ##### No this kid only wondered about the trip up there ##### So they buttered one hundred pieces of toast ##### The white kind ##### One more kid was ready for the big journey ##### To the stars ##### And this one ##### The one with the green eyes and the white teeth ##### Had thought for days of what to bring ##### The kid arrived to a decision ##### And the day before the journey put out paper ##### And a pen ##### The kid briefly considered stamps ##### But then thought ##### How or to whom were they to send a letter ##### They didnt know ##### And even less did the kid know what words ##### They would write down ##### Once they were seeing? ##### standing on? ##### Or holding? ##### Or hugging...? ##### Kissing? ##### Could I? ##### Laughing with? ##### Oh I hope ##### Living on ##### Swimming in? ##### This would be a dream!!!! ##### Loving?!? ##### Being with forever!!! ##### Never to let go of again ##### Right??? ##### Will stay forever and ever ##### Can I be this??? ##### Their star ##### xoxo [Subscribe now](#/portal/signup) #### Chips On The Moon by Nathan A S Armstrong ##### If you think I’ll ask for the impossible, I won’t ##### I just ask if we give what’s possible a review ##### Some things stay still, and some things don’t ##### The world, in time, turns all our heresies true ##### Love, sometimes my love, love is the Atlantic ##### Someone has to go first, go further, be brave ##### Have faith that they would not be enchanted ##### Pulled down by mermaids in deathly embrace ##### Instead, they named their ship “Semper Amor” ##### They hoisted sails as sure as a seraphim wing ##### To the call of the drum, they take up their oars ##### Onwards they push, arms taut, eyes shining ##### As they put their trust in the ends of the earth ##### That it would always find it’s way back around ##### To the beginning, just like I, with my last breath ##### Will always find my way to you, safe and sound ##### However fast the horizon runs out in front of me ##### I too will chart a hopeful course to that blue line ##### And I will meet you there, where sky meets sea ##### In every single time, in every impossible lifetime ##### Once we’ve spanned uncrossable salt and foam ##### Let’s push higher still, and be the first into space ##### One more adventure before night calls us home ##### Let’s light up the dark like a comet’s trail-blaze ##### We can make a carnival of colour up in the sky ##### Our one pulse, our one breath a heavenly tune ##### With one small step and a giant leap, you and I ##### Could be eating chips together up on the moon see you soon! your bog bodies