“You mustn’t play in the fields between worlds,” she warned. “One false step, and whoosh! The muddy abyss’ll swallow you up.”

The children are gone, now. All that remains are the scars in the soil where they fell: a dark, infinite wasteland of holes.

Down here, we call them stars.

David-Christopher Harris published the YA fantasy short story, “Falselight”, available at dcharriswriting.com. He enjoys cranberry juice.