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Two years is long time to be in a relationship and Kaley was happy with that. She loved Frank, he loved her. They had their patterns, their things, their places and it was fine, familiar and perfect for her. For Frank as well, or so she thought. Then, he changed and he wasn’t satisfied, he wanted more, new people new flavors. Would she be able to handle all this change or would her world suddenly crumble?
Written by Rebecca Milton
Published by AmorBooks
Consider the donut.
I am going to give you time to do that while I sit here in my sunny breakfast nook, in the kitchen of my third-floor apartment, sip my coffee and consider … other things. I am going to consider why I never took up smoking. Smoking seems like it would be the perfect thing to do right now. I could sit here with my coffee, in front of me an overflowing ashtray, the top few inches of my housecoat open revealing the yellowed, tattered, lace of my slip. The fingers of my right hand, nicotine stained and shaking as I bring the burning cigarette to my lips. Perhaps I still have the remnants of lipstick on. Some distant shade of pale pink name flower petal or dusky rose, some reminder of the attempts I made last night, in the dark of a bar, to catch me a man.
I’d suck on the cigarette, hold the smoke and then exhale while I thoughtfully stubbed it…
