Preliminary notes:
this has nothing to do with the Gratuitous German story. I'd sort of forgotten I'd written it until today, when I was looking for something else, and discovered it, wedged between my bed and some folders. I read it, and I liked what I read, which doesn't often happen with stuff I wrote ages ago. Because this is two and a half years old, you see (much to my surprise).
Anyway, I'll shut up now and let you get on and read (should you wish to do so).
~*~
The first time you see him - although you don't see him so much as feel him - your shoulder slams hard into his arm, sending his ridiculously over-priced coffee flying. How the scalding liquid hits neither you, him, nor any other commuter is something of a small mystery. Even though you don't look him in the eye, have no idea what he looks like, you glean one thing from this first, chance, meeting: he's almost a foot taller than you are.
The second time, he sees you coming, and sidesteps you with elegance. The movement catches your eye, and so you look up. His legs are long and thin, like a dancer's. Maybe he is a dancer. Who knows?
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Comments if you have them would be good :)
this has nothing to do with the Gratuitous German story. I'd sort of forgotten I'd written it until today, when I was looking for something else, and discovered it, wedged between my bed and some folders. I read it, and I liked what I read, which doesn't often happen with stuff I wrote ages ago. Because this is two and a half years old, you see (much to my surprise).
Anyway, I'll shut up now and let you get on and read (should you wish to do so).
~*~
The first time you see him - although you don't see him so much as feel him - your shoulder slams hard into his arm, sending his ridiculously over-priced coffee flying. How the scalding liquid hits neither you, him, nor any other commuter is something of a small mystery. Even though you don't look him in the eye, have no idea what he looks like, you glean one thing from this first, chance, meeting: he's almost a foot taller than you are.
The second time, he sees you coming, and sidesteps you with elegance. The movement catches your eye, and so you look up. His legs are long and thin, like a dancer's. Maybe he is a dancer. Who knows?
( Read more... )
Comments if you have them would be good :)
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