I love her so damned much." Manny heard himself say. “That’s my heart right there. That’s my woman”.

For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other

If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments.

Good? No, that didn't go far enough. She'd made him feel… alive. Awakened.

When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables.