Dying Down

 

     He leaves a rose with a note sitting on the kitchen table. She opens it up and that’s when the tears won’t stop. He says that he has been seeing someone else for a week, and this girl will give him anything that he wants, and he’s finally got what he wanted. She dropped to the ground in slow motion and everything around her seems to turn to gray. She held the rose so close as if she had him in her arms again, as if it actually had some kind of meaning. She sits there for hours thinking about all the amazing times they had together, but as her mind comes back to reality she realizes that he’s’ not coming back. The flame that was once alive and burning within her is now dying down every moment that he is gone.

Reviews

[ju]

i'd be interested to know what it is the other woman offers, that she can't. (just one week- he can tell?) the "why" could be a twist in the story, or a sting in the tail. i was waiting for some form of a conclusion but it didn't happen. it has a bitter/romantic taste i like- but felt just a bit hollow.