The Quiet Coyote and Other Strange Spirits

by clockwork-faerie98

A series of 100-word, practice-my-writing-skills drabbles on the favorite get-the-kids-to-shut-up tool of teachers and camp counselors everywhere and all the other strange childhood stories that are out there. I wrote this because, hey, if there's one thing I believed in during childhood, it was the Quiet Coyote.

3. Starlight

"Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may I wish I might, get the wish I wish tonight." Lucy Banks sat at her window and squeezed her eyes shut, praying to the twinkling first star of night in the deep evening sky.

Millions of miles away, up among the starry sky, the first star of evening gave a small smile and flickered a little brighter, delighted at the little girl below.

"Oh, Lucy," she whispered softly. "I'm so sorry, sweetheart. I love you, darling, but…you live in an apartment. There's simply no room for a pony."