Betrayal
I came back to the abandoned place the pick up the last of her pieces. I was always against her metamorphosing into glass.
"You can't hold yourself together for too long that way", I had warned her. But my words fell on her glass ear. Cracking them. The beginning of the discovery.
Her skin had the properties of the mirror. People took some of the broken pieces for their homes. She depreciated.
I came back to the abandoned place, today. My twenty-three old mirror was broken by one careless movement of hands last night, as I made love blindfolded to my live-in partner, Medusa.
"You can't hold yourself together for too long that way", I had warned her. But my words fell on her glass ear. Cracking them. The beginning of the discovery.
Her skin had the properties of the mirror. People took some of the broken pieces for their homes. She depreciated.
I came back to the abandoned place, today. My twenty-three old mirror was broken by one careless movement of hands last night, as I made love blindfolded to my live-in partner, Medusa.
Labels: betrayal, death, fiction, flash fiction, glass, love, medusa, mirror, short story, story, surreal