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He Said I Was Pretty 
by Rie Sheridan Rose

He said I was pretty

When I met him at the bar.

He sure was.

I had never seen so beautiful

A man in all my life.

.

His hair glowed like sunlight—

Almost too bright to look at—

And his eyes were sapphire blue.

Everything I love in a man…

I was hooked.

.

He bought me a drink,

And then another…

Things get foggy after that.

I remember whispered secrets,

But not what they were.

.

He had the ghost of an accent

I could not place.

It made everything sound

Like a miracle.

I fell hard.

.

When he asked me back

To his place, I knew better…

But I didn’t care.

He said he’d make me a star.

I didn’t know he meant it literally.

.

Fiction © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from Author Rie Sheridan Rose:

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…unless you like the touch of an icy finger up your spine.

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