A Fate Befitting All Rare Creatures

By James Ferace

After moving on with his life after his fiancé went missing some years earlier...a man soon finds that his new girlfriend is displaying some suspiciously familiar behavior.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365182259

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A Fate Befitting All Rare Creatures

A Fate Befitting All Rare Creatures

By James  Ferace

I'd just met her.  Delicate green eyes, auburn hair.  Gentle voice like a kindergarten teacher's.  At first I didn't really think two ways about it, but our paths kept crossing.  And every time I would notice more and more how inviting her smile was.  How soft and pale the skin on her cheeks was as she lowered her glasses to speak to me and her eyes seemed to dance to life.  Like seasons unfurling.  That's when she mentioned a certain book she'd been looking for.  Something she'd read in college and had fallen in love with and always wanted to read again.  I'm not sure why I found myself hesitating.  Knowing that I'd owned the book for years and my mental eye went right to the shelf it was perched on in my home.  I could feel my throat begin to tense up with the words which never came.  Not the ones I should have said, at least.  I did respond eventually with a calm, Maybe you could find it in a library.  Of course you could find it in a library.  What a nonsensical response.  All my moments of idiocy wrapped up in a single moment.  But I didn't want to leave her hanging.  But I was so stunted in that instant as she brushed the buoyant curls back behind her ears and slipped the glasses up to her eyes once more and smiled.  I wanted to see her again, but I wasn't certain that I should.

It was only a handful of months since she disappeared.  I lost count of the days some time ago.  I was ashamed of myself for doing so.  I'm not entirely sure why, but there was always a feeling that dwell in me which knew that I was never going to see her again.  When she was presumed dead, I wasn't the tiniest bit surprised.  Morbid, I know, but I just couldn't see it any other way.  In fact, she'd only been gone a week when I knew that was to be true.  I had no reason to believe this...I just did.  All sparks of her essence had gone from me.  Becoming termites.  A certain sinking in my spirit which grew