What doesn't burn you makes you stronger...

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This 107 word story is inspired by this picture prompt.

 

We are joined at the heart…

Forever.

 High-tensile wire…

 imbedded

 in the fibers of me.

 I cannot separate where you end...

 and I begin.

I watch you...

 almost a stranger now.

Breathing shallowly in your sterile bed…

And I wonder

 if you wonder...

and if you remember

that I remember…

that we were once joined at the heart?

Or have the dirty needles you use to forget

Made you forget

 

That we were once joined at the heart?

Or does it just not matter at all…

 that you walked again into the flames

While, I.

I broke.

…and broke…

 

 and fell into a ring of fire…

 Heart first?