I eat my lunch with a man I shared a glance with across the courtyard: the first interaction I’ve had in a long time.
I name our kids, Julian and Ava. I want an outdoor wedding. No. Indoor. Both? I check up on my husband across the courtyard.
He left.
Aside from choking people for sport, Brianne Robertson–the Jiu Jitsu competitor–enjoys writing short excerpts and poems in her spare time.
He’s definitely the one.
We simply must use his dad’s boat! Romantic weekends away sailing the sea, popping champagne, watching the sunset with his arms lovingly wrapped around me, talking about our future, our life together.
I think about this often on the train ride back from our first date.
Hannah is from the UK and is a second-year university student. She has been aimlessly writing stories since she learned how to spell more than three-letter words.
You were my rebound love.
You galloped into my heart with flanks rippling.
It wasn’t long before our hearts beat wildly and our bodies entwined.
Surprisingly, it took a while for reality to set in and for me to know that you, the ferocious stallion, didn’t know love at all.
Pat St. Pierre is a freelance writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for adults and children. Her third poetry book “Full Circle” was published by Kelsay Books. Her work has appeared both online and in print. You may find some of her work at: Three Line Poetry, 50 word stories, Fiction 365, Whisperings, A Long Story Short, etc. She is also an amateur photographer whose photos have won awards and been on the covers and included in online and print magazines. Her blog is pstpierre.wordpress.com.