The Moon Without Stars: Chapters 12–16

by Chanel Miller
Seventh-grader Luna Noon and her friend Scott Lam start a magazine, but find themselves involved in interpersonal drama.

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  1. surge
    a sudden forceful flow
    A small surge of excitement that extinguished just as quickly; everyone said this is when you become a woman, but now I just had a flaming inconvenience to deal with.
  2. dilapidated
    in a state of decay, ruin, or deterioration
    We walked down the busy road, over to the park, the sky now a periwinkle color, sitting down at a dilapidated picnic table.
  3. circulate
    cause to be distributed
    Within minutes a slow-motion video was circulating of Llama smashing his face, titled “Gory & Glorious.”
  4. riveting
    capable of arousing and holding the attention
    “Something to renew dignity to those of us pretending that what’s on-screen is more riveting than the dance floor.”
  5. hierarchy
    a series of ordered groupings within a system
    I didn’t know you were supposed to like multiple people at once, in a hierarchy.
  6. fizzle
    end weakly
    Llama started waving it like a flag, smacking people with it, the girls screaming, and just as quickly, when the amusement had fizzled, discarded it behind the bushes.
  7. deadpan
    deliberately impassive in manner
    At Cho’s, Scott constructed Bert on the plate; the pork bun eyes and signature deadpan egg roll mouth.
  8. mogul
    a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
    We talked about our futures: Miki was going to be a small animal veterinarian, Ivy planned to be a polyamorous snowboard instructor, and June was going to be a real estate mogul and investor.
  9. autonomy
    personal independence
    Puberty was like a combination between the words PU and liberty, a stinky type of freedom and autonomy.
  10. confidant
    someone to whom private matters are told
    All my life, Scott had been my sole confidant.
  11. impending
    close in time; about to occur
    I realized it was my turn to offer a phrase for June’s impending vandalization.
  12. precarious
    not secure; beset with difficulties
    As long as someone was in a more precarious position than me, I was safe.
  13. flagrant
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
    I could now see phrases June must’ve taken the liberty of adding: worn-out clothes, flagrant outfit repeater, it’s time for a wardrobe refresh!
  14. perpetually
    everlastingly; for all time
    What no one said was that her newly sculpted eyebrows made her look perpetually surprised.
  15. fathom
    come to understand
    I could not fathom cutting him off completely.
Created on Fri Oct 02 04:34:48 EDT 2026 (updated Fri Oct 02 16:15:32 EDT 2026)

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