Valentine Favreau

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“Champagne-coloured Farewell” by Valentine Favreau

Submitted to Contest #44

I could no longer breathe. Still, my legs kept chasing the lengthiest goodbye my sunken heart had ever encountered. Was I to smile, to scream, or to cry as my love reciprocated the symbolic hand gesture? As fast as I ran, the train was much faster. The desperation resonating through my heels and the clunking of the rails submerged my last whisper. “I love you”. Nevertheless, amid the crowded station, the outline of my unheard words were captured and understood. The man I hoped to see again gently pressed his hand atop the buttoned pleated po...

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