Written by Andrew Duval from California, USA The midnight sea sparkled in the moonlight. Along the beach, turbulent waves crashed against boulders dotting the shoreline. The stars of the milky way, free from the chains of city lights, shone defiantly, splattering the night sky with speckles of gold and blue. I gazed at the brightest star from the mound of sand that my head rested on, marvelling at its beauty. The star grew larger and larger until it exploded into the beam of
