Let's Dance

By Robin Watergrove

An excerpt from the story: "I made a dance to do with you. I made a dance for you, with you, about you. I made a dance so I could hold you close under the pretense that on stage it’s somehow symbolic, not real. That the act of choreographing an action necessarily abstracts it. I made a dance for you so I could pretend that holding you in my arms isn’t everything I wanted. So I could pretend the dance was more important, like my purpose was to create a dance, not to take any path I could think of to get closer to you."

This is a 2,401 word literary short story about the nature of attraction.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robin Watergrove
• Release date: Aug 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311868077

Robin Watergrove

Robin writes at a messy desk in a neat room. She loves sunshine, goofy jokes, and coffee popsicles. She writes to make sense of the world and tries to capture life as it is, believing emotional empathy to be a better medicine than soothing fantasy. She considers the highest praise of her work to be ‘I’ve felt that, too.’ Robin lives in the Pacific Northwest and tells everyone that it’s rainy and grey so she can have the lovely weather all to herself. She doesn’t any have any pets but there is this one neighborhood cat that badly wants to live in her house. They hang out on her porch instead. Join her mailing list here: http://eepurl.com/bv3cPL

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Let’s Dance

A Literary Short Story about Lesbian Pining

Copyright 2015 Robin Watergrove

I made a dance for you. To show you how I feel. It’s simple. Nothing more than it needs to be, nothing less.

I should have just written you a love letter like a normal person. But you’re so lovely. You’re so alive. Longing has tied my tongue and I’m full of clichés; that’s why I made a dance for you. You’re so _______ that words come up short.

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Hey.

Hi!

Cute shirt.

Ha, thank you. It’s so old.

"The best shirts always are. I think the fashion hive-mind only makes cool