Leonid

Leonid
noun /ˈliːənɪd/
a) Each of a shower of meteorites which fall from the area of sky around the constellation Leo in November.

I wrote my first story about the ghost of a horse leaping from a cascade of flame just after the leonids had been more torrential than men had remembered them for centuries.

b) a transliteration of a common Russian name.

Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.


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