Starchild — Joe Vasicek

The revolutions passed, and the stars spun silently underfoot.

Starchild's father was a star wanderer, and that was what set her above her peers. It gave her the freedom to choose her own mate, no small thing on an isolated space colony. In her innocence, though, she failed to see her place in the cycle of Outworld life -- or how she was doomed to repeat it.

This story appeared in the July 2019 issue of Bards and Sages Quarterly.