Ice and Fire
Their tightly held hands were like a savagely raging fire.
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2 min readOct 9, 2022
Kaelyn was amazed. They were in the hot springs, everything was steaming but her hand was colder than a corpse’s.
They sipped from plastic cups on Beale Street. Alasdair held her hand, but this time his hand was corpse cold.
She had no treats for the child in the hotel lobby, but then the Elvis impersonator emerged as her treat.
It was Graceland, but the Marilyn Monroe impersonator was perfectly in place on the line. Their gazes glazed like donuts.
Kaelyn and Elvis sipped from plastic cups on Beale Street. Their tightly held hands were like a savagely raging fire.
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This was written for this prompt by Grimsby Hackney
