Left Quotes

“His time to speak had run out. Staring at her picture on his screen, he touched her face. She smiled back at him. The call disconnected. He wondered how they had done so too.”
― Stefanie Hutcheson, Left

“Staring at the phone in his hand, he sighed before dialing the number he knew by heart. Sure, he could have just clicked on her picture but for some reason it made his eyes tear up to see his wife’s smiling face while his own had tears streaming down it.”
― Stefanie Hutcheson, Left

“The chill in her heart seemed to mock her as it echoed “critters,” “debris,” and “tempestuous.” The iciness inside of her only hardened as she contemplated how she had so callously left her husband behind at the gas station. Surely no woman in her right mind would do what she had done.

As she examined these thoughts, she tried to make order of them and what caused the break--for something had definitely been broken. Cracked. Fractured. And now those frozen fractals were piercing her heart and mind. She would add “soul” but at this point, she wondered what had become of hers.”
― Stefanie Hutcheson, Left

“Reading them for a third and fourth time, something else was apparent. She was just as confused as he was about why she had left him behind. These words especially caught his attention:

What you did at the gas station before I
drove off was the last straw. I didn’t
realize I had been counting them but…
apparently--in my subconsciousness--
they had been adding up.”
― Stefanie Hutcheson, Left