Swallow

[I couldn't sleep until I wrote this. A few hours, and two thousand words later... I have the zero-draft of an interesting story, as whole as I'm going to tell it. I haven't been able to do this in a long time.]

“You were seduced by the open air long before I could get to you.”

Those were bitter words, once spoken to me by an ex-girlfriend displeased with my dreamer’s nature and better interest in the outdoors than her want for impractical shoes and expensive, short skirts. I suppose, to an extent, it was true… I had explored that land of my birth as intimately as any man could a lady’s physique. I knew her soft hollows, her curving tracks, her secret slips of shadow leading off into the blind oblivion. ( Read more... )