"It gets better," she said, one day, over coffee. "There will be days when you don't even think about it. In time."

But she lied, or else was wrong, and his is a number I can't take off my phone, and his is a face that won't be in the crowd.

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Like a beggar asking for change, I held out my hand, but she didn't seem to notice it hanging in the air between us ( Read more... )

Title: Lonely
Rating: G
Word Count: 904
Summary: I wrote this a million years ago for my Spanish class in college. I eventually translated the whole thing, but here's the English version.

( From that moment on, she knew she belonged to him. )

Title: Automaton ( Read more... )

Title: An Anachronic Condition
Rating: G
Word Count: 1240
Summary: The year is 1911 and Theodore has just proposed to the woman he loves, but the secret of her origins is too great to ignore. (That's right, melodrama, pre-Great War style!)

( You were something else entirely. Like a creature from a Greek myth. )

Title: Stay ( Read more... )

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Title: The Art of Being Gone
Rating: G
Word Count: 1029
Summary: A young woman can do anything she puts her mind to, even vanish.

( Once you start to disappear, there is nothing left to do but to go forward. )

Title: Rain Maker Found Dead
Rating: G
Length: 657 words

( It was only a matter of hours before the whole town knew: we were doomed )

Title: Ode to a Valley Girl
Rating: G
Length: 673
Summary: So, like, this is totally a monologue I wrote and performed in front of a class one time, you know? Anyway, I rocked it, duh. I mean, just look at me.

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