Starlight

By Catherine Mesick

Angie hasn't been feeling like herself for a long time. In fact, it's fair to say she's lost her mojo. And then one night, a starlit visitor gives her a chance to start again at life—and at love. (A paranormal romance short story.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scofflaw Publishing
• Release date: Jul 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201231453

Catherine Mesick

Catherine Mesick is the author of Pure, Firebird, Dangerous Creatures, and Ghost Girl. She is a graduate of Pace University and Susquehanna University. She lives in Maryland. Visit the author’s website at catherinemesick.com and her Facebook page at facebook.com/PureBookSeries. You can also connect with her on Twitter at twitter.com/CatherineMesick.

Book preview

Starlight

Star light, star bright, Angie Hamoncourt murmured to herself.

She looked at the single star in the twilight sky—the first star of the evening—but she couldn’t bring herself to make a wish.

There were no more wishes left in her.

As she watched, the sky deepened into night, and more stars came out. Angie sat on a soft blanket in the grass and watched the dark sky fill up as if with diamonds. As she breathed in the warm summer air deeply, she saw a shooting star streak across the sky and fall toward the earth.

Again, once upon a time, Angie would have made a wish.

But that time was long past.

And that feeling that would have been a wish remained locked inside her heart.

She watched for a few, fleeting seconds until the falling star—a tiny pinpoint of light—disappeared from her sight.

Then she went inside her house.

Lately, she’d been spending a lot of nights sitting alone in her back yard, and this Friday night was no different.

Somehow, it was easier than spending time with other people.

Angie went into her bedroom and looked around at all her familiar, cherished things and felt the same aching distance from them—from herself, even—that she experienced every night. She looked at her own image in the mirror—her face, framed by her long, dark hair, was youthful and unlined—the face of the original Angie. But somehow her eyes had lost their spark, and she felt as if a stranger