Insurmountable
Flash Fiction, by C.J. Heck
Sid was in the middle of writing a letter when suddenly, he knew. This wasn’t the way he wanted to end it with Molly. It felt too impersonal.
They had been together for a decade —they had a history. Their past would always matter, because the good had been good, but there could be no future.
Their few differences had grown to flesh and blood size and were always in the way. They were both guilty of sidestepping, thinking maybe if they ignored the issues, they would just go away. But that wasn’t going to happen.
He didn’t really know exactly what brought them to this point, only that they were here. They had become two strangers co-existing in the same space and time and the silence was palpable.
What hurt him most was seeing the same anger and pain in her eyes that he saw in his mirror. It was over and they both knew it. All that was left was for someone to say the words, so he would say them tonight over dinner.
He tore up the letter and reached for the phone. As he dialed her number at work, he silently mourned for all that was lost.
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I love the way you write CJ. I always feel like I’m right there in the story I felt for both of them.