Darling Venom

by Parker S. Huntington

They say love has no eyes or ears. They forgot the brain. That’s missing, too.

Falling in love makes you feel immortal. Don’t you want that? No, I thought bitterly. Death doesn’t scare me.

I feel like your soul and mine are made of the same stuff. The black slug.

“This is not the beginning of something,” Kellan warned. “If anything, it’s the end.”