Fallen

This is my first attempt at participating in the Friday Flash Fiction hashtag I keep seeing on Twitter, but I'll tell you what happened tonight. I stood outside and saw the most beautiful falling star I'd ever witnessed, and it sparked an idea. The idea stems from another story I've been working on lately–a novel–and I realized after I wrote this that I may have a short story that falls between books. Anyway, it's 985 words. Seeing as how anything I write ends up a novel, I just tried to...