Dark Notes

by Pam Godwin

“Yes.” My mouth twitches. “Karma.”

“Sometimes you love people you shouldn’t, and in the endless space of that love, nothing else matters.”

“But you are. You’re worth it.”

I died somewhere between my release and his. And now I know how it feels to be alive.

“When we’re together, Ivory, when it’s just you and me like this, happiness can only be limited by us. We make the rules and decide how this is going to go. Our world is as boundless and real as our feelings for each other.”

“Come back to me.”