The Bright Side of Going Dark

by Kelly Harms

He is a man wearing a sports jacket with a T-shirt. I find those sorts of outfits to be very intimidating. They look like what the bad boyfriend in Hallmark movies would wear.

His teeth are very bright against his lips. I hope I’m not fetishizing him due to innate racial bias implicit in my being raised white in our bigoted society, but the man really is quite attractive.

There are things you know you want in your life, that you know are good and right and true the moment you realize they exist. Things that you can only miss if you’re not paying attention. Usually, as far as I can tell, these things are dogs. But sometimes they’re people.