Bound by Stardust

by Angela J. Ford

I’d enact my revenge.

“Because when I kiss you, it feels like we are lost souls meant to find each other. When I kiss you, it feels like home, that everything is all right, exactly as it was meant to be.”

“Every year, on All Hallow’s Eve, there is a cleansing ceremony in preparation for the tithe. The Masters get rid of all the old bones they’ve kept throughout the year, and when they do so, a strange phenomenon happens: stardust falls. No one can explain it. Some call it the tears from the sky, weeping over the dead.”