Waiting for you

Waiting for you is a prompt from a writing workshop, and here are two short responses

Micro-flash 1
The window darkens. The streetlamps cast their white circles. I watch, in hope more than expectation.
It’s been a year. Today – tonight – you left the house. Ran into that same darkness.
The slam of the door still echoes in my broken heart.

Flash 2

I pass the time waiting for you watching the arrival of others. They come through the sliding glass doors, checking phones, hoisting backpacks, t...