The Pain of Second Starfall

A single star fell from the night to earth, or, more accurately, into the sea. Had you stood on the shore, you would have watched as a flaming thread dropped down toward the horizon, its mirror image in the water rising up to meet it. Your gut would have felt the impact, and you would have been swallowed, drowned, before your senses returned to you...***Long ago, a star fell to earth, bringing with it a great apocalypse. But stars have sisters—and around the world, mystical clocks tick, tick, tick...