The Firefly

📖Story Brief #20

At night we went outside.

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At night we went outside. The sky was dark. We saw a small light in the grass. It was a firefly. The light blinked on and off. We walked slowly toward it. We did not want to scare it. We followed it across the yard. It flew a little. It landed again. Its light glowed. We did not catch it. We just looked. It was like a tiny star in the grass. Then it flew away. We saw more fireflies. The yard was full of little lights.

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