Ever in Love

Prompt: what about love? by in_the_blue. 100 Word Stories

I wanted a plethora of quick drabbles. This is one of the few pieces that didn’t look liked I crammed a short into a flash. It’s also the first finished prose snippet of the world. Yay.

Liana Mir

Liana Mir reads, writes, and wrangles the muses from her mundane home in the Colorado Rockies and, occasionally, from the other side of the Barrier.

Series Listing

1st Era. Ending

Queen of Heaven

1st Era. Ending

Where Winter Keeps

1st Era. Final

The Unmaking

3rd Era. Transition

watch me dream

4th Era. Beginning

mirror, mirror

5th Era. Diaspora

Ever in Love

5th Era. Diaspora

some mirrors / the dreamer learns

Why did she have to look like she belonged there?

Ever’s friend comes down to his shop, perches on his desk, examines the space station parts he sells. He just wishes she came for him.

5th Era. Diaspora
Mirror Science Fiction Fantasy
Flash Fiction Short Story

“Do you ever think you’ll fall in love?” Ever asked, careful to sound casual.

Jaydn didn’t answer at first. She was too focused on testing the heft of his spare parts. Ever wondered why she had to look so at home in his sector of the space station in his shop of metals, alloys, and cast-off space station components; why perfect perched up on his desk, ignoring him often as not. She bought his goods to help her train in mirroring—not for him.

“I am in love,” she said bluntly, grinned and tossed him the bars. “I’ll take them.”