Something Always Remains
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She gave him another strange smile. He had counted seven distinctly different smiles on her face. She had one for when he was being stupid; that was the one he’d just seen. “It wasn’t so bad,” she said. “Though I’m pretty sure I’ll need some anvil-sized hints around you.”
“Hints? I mean, like?” Kyle kept stammering. Finally, he took a breath. He realized it was the first one he’d taken in the last minute. “Would you like to get some coffee?”
She gave him another smile. This one, Kyle knew, meant, “about time you figured it out.” She slipped an arm around his. They started walking down the street, a quaint little cul-de-sac lined with trees. Harmony’s car was parked at the entrance.
“I thought you’d want to kill me,” Kyle confessed.
“Enough business,” she said. “We’ve done enough with death. Now it’s time to focus on living for a while. That’s the most important thing we teach each other: how to live.”
“Maybe you’re right about those anvil-sized hints,” Kyle said. He felt like flying. He felt like he’d just won the lottery without buying a ticket. Something strange, a ... warmth ... inside him, just where a mortal’s soul would be, felt like he should have expected as much.
“Maybe,” she said teasingly. “But that’s fine. I’m not a strict teacher. Besides, I’m known for my patience.”
The End.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
M.L.S. Weech was born in August 1979 in Rapid City, South Dakota. He fell in love with fantasy and science fiction at an early age. His love of writing quickly followed when he tried to write a sequel to his favorite movie. He didn’t know what copyright infringement was. He can’t remember a time he wasn’t working on some sort of project from that day on. He wrote for a junior high project. The only way his freshman english teacher could get him to settle down was to let him start writing a book. He completed what he calls his first manuscript when he was 17. He got a ton of feedback that was honest, helpful, and not much fun to listen to, but instead of quitting, he simply wrote another, and then another.
He fell in love with reading in high school when he was introduced to Timothy Zahn and the Star Wars novels. Then he was handed Anne McCaffrey, Robert Jordan, Dean Koontz, Brandon Sanderson, and so many more. He went from reading to complete homework to reading more than three books a month, and then three books a week.
He joined the U.S. Navy as a journalist in 2005. He served on aircraft carriers and destroyers. He served in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan. When he wasn’t taking pictures, or writing features or news stories, he was writing fiction. Photojournalism was a hobby he enjoyed getting paid for, but writing fiction has been and remains his true dream. His final duty station was as an instructor at the Defense Information School in Fort Meade, Maryland, where he still teaches as a civilian.
He’s completed nine manuscripts. He published his first book, The Journals of Bob Drifter, in March of 2015. The second edition of Bob Drifter was published in 2017. His second book, Caught, was released Jan. 28, 2017.
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