One Last Job

by Anise Starre

“Don’t stay with someone that makes you feel small. Eventually, you’ll start to believe it. I learned that the hard way, and I hope you don’t have to.”

A word

give her every last one of my minutes on Earth if it meant I’d never have to see or hear her like that again.

Hawthorne Is a man of words and action

I don’t think I’ll ever get over how easily he reads me. Like I’m his favourite book he’s memorised from front to back and there are no secrets hiding between my pages. I place my hand over his.

Observant