By daylight, they told her how she was born: her birth mother fled, abandoned like a burning oil rig.

She was wildfire: unplanned, unwanted.

When the world was at its darkest, she carved a hole in the sky and crawled inside.

The stars look different when you are behind them.

Michael Anthony Fagan is a Scottish fiction writer from just outside Glasgow. He is a high school English and Media teacher who has a passion for horror, science fiction, and making documentaries. He is currently working on his debut novel and finding places to publish his short stories.