Marie Samuels

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“The Embers of us” by Marie Samuels

Submitted to Contest #211

I can’t count the number of nights that we sat in front of this very same fireplace, the room lit by its flickering flames, blissfully unaware of what would one night take place before its hearth. As I sit here now in the chair beside it, alone and in-wait, I’m struck by the zemblanity of the situation.You purchased this place just after our wedding and surprised me with it, you said it was somewhere we could escape to that would just be ours, away from the rest of the world, our little haven. Back when the heat and the passion reflected in ...

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I write to exorcise my overactive imagination.