Stories tagged “eye contact”

  • Excerpt of a much longer work...a break-up scene

    He couldn’t look me in the eyes anymore. He hadn’t been able to do that for six months. One day when he came home I was laying on his bed. He sat beside me and set a hand on my abdomen. His fingers were tense and when he stared down at his strained...

  • Tapping Tears

    The spider splat From her eye contact Wrapped in attachment, Dispatching tears tapping, Imbedding her like webbing Her inners Are unsettling Never forgetting How she’s letting It consume all of the good inside As if that spider had spiked her dri...