Shark Heart

by Emily Habeck

When Lewis finally came to bed, he took sleeping Wren’s hand in his and closed his eyes, seeing if he could sense her electrical field. “What… What are you doing?” she asked groggily. “Just seeing what it’s like to love you when I can’t see you.”

Who am I supposed to be without you? she asked Lewis in her head. Anything you like, he replied. Wren called up to the bird quartet lingering on the tree branch above her: “I am an animal, too, you know.”