Introduction

Author's Note: The following story consists of a series of drabbles. A drabble is a story using exactly 100 words (not including the title and author's notes etc.).

The first two chapters/drabbles were written as challenge responses for a Plum board, and that is why I have posted these here. But once I'd begun, the story quickly unfolded and no amount of shushing would quiet my muse.

Each chapter of this story is a complete work of original fiction. While the reader may feel free to see anyone they wish in the stories, the theme, thoughts and characters are mine, and mine alone.

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The Goodbye

By JanG.

The words of the letter, stark and bold, had shattered my happiness. A mission overseas he'd said. I watched him as he dressed in olive green. The t-shirt hiding his muscular torso, the shirt tucked into pants that were, in turn, tucked into boots.

Foreboding so intense it set my teeth on edge. Wanting to give him a keepsake to remind him of me, I snipped one of my curls with scissors from the dresser. Folding it carefully in a tissue I pressed it into his palm.

I kissed him and then he was gone, taking my life with him.