Rebecca Roanhorse

Between Earth and Sky

Fevered Star

Sabrina D. 

What strange creatures humans are, to dream so much and achieve so little.  

“We are but fevered stars,” he intoned, like an orator on a stage. “Here a little while, bright with promise, before we burn away.”

Alli

Within even the smallest act of love lives the potential for a miracle.

He became the shout of a thousand prayers on a thousand lips. He became a prophecy of revenge. He became the blossoming shadow that engulfed a sun. 

"I lived my whole life with the sun and took it for granted," Iktan said, tone pensive."I will not make that mistake again." 

She shivered; she could not help it. The contrast was too startling, the contradiction disconcerting. She had come to face a nightmare and found this man instead.

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