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Weekly Contest #215
February 14th My first Valentine's Day alone in 5 years, and I suck at it. I gulp down the whiskey, feeling the burning sensation travel down my chest and into my stomach. My eyelids are half-closed, and my attention is fixed on the opened box by the sofa, bathed in the bluish light from the TV. Michaela had left it there; she didn’t care enough to return for it. For a few days, I had hoped she would. I had played scenarios in my head—what I would say, how I would apologize, how I would promise not to do it again. But she never came back. ...
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