3 Results with character "Aaris Caine"
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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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He had read of love in novels, prying its meaning from aging paper—something from another time, like the green forests he could only imagine. He looked for it on faces he encountered, and while he felt for every one, it was not love. He didn't like the boy when they met, and after he'd sent him down the trail, never expected to think about him again. He would not kiss him until they were twenty-six. That kiss would overturn his world, but it would not stop the exquisite ache in his…
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micro: upon entering the kitchen
Fill for the flower bed retreat warm-up: "language of flowers" in 50 words or fewer -- Flowers wait with coffee. Orange petals, not ones from their garden. A market find. But when did he go out? He’s asleep upstairs. His shoes are dry; it’s been drizzling all morning. Near the back door, bare footprints stamped in mud retreat, return. Clippers on a muddied towel keep…-
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