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Best Left Unseen - Henry S. Kivett
Best Left Unseen
Short Fiction
By
Henry S. Kivett
Copyright © 2014, Henry S. Kivett
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.
All characters and places in this book are fictitious.
ISBN 978-1-312-46818-4
Dedication
For Pluto
Mutual
Originally published by Smokelong Quarterly, Summer 2011
She's got the worst fuck face ever. It's a sneer. Her thin upper lip curls towards her icy green eyes. She looks right through me, off into space. It's a look of embattled concentration. Like she's trying, with no dictionary, to translate from French, searching her vocabulary for the English words that make up la petite mort.
Really, it's her attitude that keeps me coming back for more. She acts as if she's got the fuck face that launched a thousand ships. She flirts and she teases. She does yoga in knee socks and no bra. I consider myself, fuck face aside, a lucky man. But you can tell she knows something is up. She's overcompensating.
So we break up—it's mutual—in April. Our lease runs