The Wind The Moves the Stars: Stell's Story

By Ann Stratton

Stephanie's spending way too much time with her new team mate, leaving Stell out in the cold. Fell and Chosen don't like her either and they like everybody. And then she invites herself to Stell's home and then one by one, Stell's family members begin to disappear. Can Stell break the spell over Stephanie and save her family from this stranger?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ann Stratton
• Release date: Apr 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463627488

Ann Stratton

Ann Stratton started writing at age thirteen with the usual results. After a long stint in fan fiction, honing her skills, she hopes she has gotten better since then. She lives in Southeastern Arizona, trying to juggle all her varied interests. 

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The Wind That Moves The Stars:

Stell’s Story

The Smashwords Edition

Ann Stratton

A Blind Woman Production publication

Copyright © 2017 Ann Stratton

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Disclaimer

This is a work of fiction, a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance or similarity to any actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Credits

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Editing, formatting, and cover design by Ann Stratton

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Stell sat on the weather beaten wooden bleachers and watched Stephanie and her designated runner laugh and talk to each other on the players’ bench. This was Stephanie’s time, her game, the time she took to better herself, to move among her peers and expand her world. Stell had no reason or business to object, but she thought about jamming her wooden bokken sword between those long runner’s legs while the girl flipped her ponytail and flirted with Stephanie.

Unworthy, she said to herself. She shook herself free of such thoughts, breathing long slow breaths until she was clear and calm again. She had no reason to doubt Stephanie. The team had recruited a local track star to run for Stephanie, because her legs were too short to get around the bases fast enough. Some of the other teams objected, so Stephanie pounded the baseballs out of the Park, giving the outfielders no chance to catch them before she could make the rounds. She also taught the track star how to throw, hit, and catch so she wouldn’t be completely useless to the team. Between the two of them, the team was the first in the league. They might take the citywide trophy this year.

Stell breathed her way through the exercises a few more times. Baseball was Stephanie’s outlet. Sword practice was hers. Stephanie never objected to the time Stell spent on practice or the matches she competed in, so Stell had no business objecting to Stephanie’s competition.

We eat the girl? Chosen offered. He lay in the grass