From a Long-Ago Creative Writing Class

The prompt was to write a certain number of words related to an assigned noun and adjective. I don’t remember the details of how they were assigned, but I believe every student got a different pairing. Mine are in bold print, when you get to them.

To say that she noticed it straight off would be to lie. Truth was, she didn’t know for certain when it had begun: all the hovering, the following, the darting out of reach.

She didn’t care, either, not really. Not at this point. If she had t...