Hillock – Lingering glances at waitress. Your phone number secretly scrawled on the bill.

Bridge – Flowers, expensive dinners. Breathless streams of fragile promises.

Church With Spire – Expected. Drunken proposals, forgotten by morning.

Mountain – Personal trainer, more than once, while I was pregnant.

Quarry – Pit. The deep, dark realisation you’d never cared.

Jo Withers writes short fiction from her home in South Australia. Recent work appears in Reflex Fiction, NFFD Anthology and Best Microfictions 2020.