Gin and Platonics

[Scarlet Woundsmile]

If I toasted to the number of times that you teased me like a sister, my cheeks would flush from the drink, but I suppose accidents happen on one way streets, when someone changes direction.

You didn’t attend my wedding, but you did give me away.

I would have loved to have remained your one-of-the-guys-girl forever, but instead you now see me as taken, like little boxes in the human game of “Go” -surrounded, and captured.

I never felt like the spoils of war, until you treated my marriage as someone else’s kill shot. So I toast to your absence now, and to the subversiveness of ‘When Harry Met Sally.”

[Allie]

Love the title; it's perfect. Nice look at a broken heart without getting too mushy.

[mal]

Great piece of writing , really good ....M

[essygie]

cool piece of writing, especially like, You didn’t attend my wedding, but you did give me away.

[Scarlet Woundsmile]

thanks for your comments! and no - didn't send it...there is no one to send it to but my imagination ;)

[JMac]

Slam on the brakes - woah! Serious emotion in this piece. It's hard to write an emotional piece well, but this is just fantastic.

[John Wiswell]

I've never been so happy to not play Go.

[Mariah]

Scarlet: I love the phrase "I never felt like the spoils of war. . ." Nice way to capture the difficult place the character is (you are?) in.