Goodbye Note

by J.R. Gray

We don’t have to hold on to the sins of ghosts’ past or tethers of lives we don’t claim.”

“Fuck, I wish I could kiss your dimples right now.” “Come here and get them,” I taunted, like he could hop on a plane and be here in time. If only the planet weren’t so big. “I would trade my sun and all the stars to do just that, Stardust.”

I’ll love you through every phase of our lives, every high and low.”

“There will never be a moment I don’t love you. No matter how close or far apart we are.”

The opposite of love wasn’t hate. It was civil. Strangers who used to be lovers.