Catch a Falling Star: A Carver High Short Story
Linda Leigh Hargrove

Mae Richards is a washed-up high school track coach in crisis. Should she quit something she loves doing (coaching track) because she's no longer winning? When one of her track stars gets pregnant, Mae feelings of failure magnify. She's reminded of her own crisis pregnancy in college that almost ended brought her own track stardom to an end. The sudden appearance of her old college flame Harrison Perry at Carver sends her reeling. Back in their college track days, Harrison had proposed marriage but she'd turned him down ... and lived to regret it. He knows nothing about the baby she aborted. She's certain if he knew, he'd reject her just like he rejected him all those years ago.