Unrequited Love

  • With/Without

    With/Without

    I cannot imagine a world without your inescapable, reckless charm. Without a doubt, my finest hour was all about you and being part of your life; a dangerous secret — knowing all too well that we existed only in my mind. If only “we” could have had a chance before you fell in love with

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  • Smoke Without Mirrors

    Smoke Without Mirrors

    He said it could quite possibly be the most important text he’d ever sent (to her), and would she like to meet him at The Gilded Grasshopper for an early dinner. Hell, yeah, she would! With her wild heart pounding, Renée texted back saying she would be there at 6:00. What could it be? We

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  • Sleight of Heart

    Sleight of Heart

    Today’s prompt at the Go Do Go Café: Write a story or poem that ends with the phrase “he shredded her dreams in dignified air of victory” He said it could quite possibly be the most important text he’d ever sent (to her), and would she like to meet him at The Bamboo Banshee for

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  • Like I Do

    I almost called you today when a song came on the radio that reminded me of the “us” in my mind’s eye; the us that lives exclusively and forever in my heart then I remembered (how could I forget?) you don’t care like I do and that you don’t think of me “that way” and

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  • (Un)welcome Home

    The warmth of your hand   holding mine felt like coming home. For those few   seconds I was exactly where I wanted to be — but knew I couldn’t stay.    

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