21 Results in the "short stories" category
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apologies for the rain
If he’d known the storm would last all afternoon, he would’ve taken the early train. By the time he learned of cancellations due to flooding, the last one had departed the station, leaving him soaked in the road outside of the restaurant. Not the impression he’d hoped to make after two years, but if he was stuck here, he ought to make the best of things, and he hadn’t packed another suit. At least his watch was waterproof. Maybe he ought to look for a hotel instead and catch up on sleep.…-
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Verity
She’s got a broom in her hands and is sweeping dirt from the lowest stair when he walks past. Seeing him doesn’t surprise her anymore. When he first went by—years ago now—she felt the shock like lightning in her stomach and in her chest. It was his back that she saw, but she knew him at once by the color of his hair, the deep rust brown that hung past his shoulders, out of style her whole lifetime. The particular motion of his step, always favoring his right leg. An accident when he’d…-
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