Night Shift at the Planetarium

Noor’s job was to shut the galaxy off. That was the joke. In practice she ran the projectors through their cool-down, checked the empty seats for lost phones, and ate granola bars under a plaster sky.

The first night the stars stayed on, she assumed a glitch. The second night, the constellations had rearranged themselves into a shape that was not in any of the show files: a door.

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