Marie Llewell

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“He Calls Her Love” by Marie Llewell

Submitted to Contest #234

“I expected the Goddess of Love to look very different.” “Oh, do I disappoint you, dear?” The woman moved closer, her voice cracked. It was weak as if she had spent the long days of her life working and the longer nights crying alone. “You imagined a thin, graceful lady in my place? Someone you’d sleep with?” She closed her eyes, sighing wearily, and let her head fall into her wrinkled hands – nails chipped and fingertips scarred as if from long hours over a spitting stove. “A young thing brimming over with adoration? Perhaps a beauty consu...

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