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He paused, then added, quieter: “Then they kiss.”
Hanzo blinked once. His hands had stilled over his sketchbook.
Cassidy leaned back, smug.
“Just once,” he said. “Not even desperate. It’s slow, like they’d already been lovers for weeks and it was inevitable.”
There was a beat of silence. The rain against the window seemed louder now.
Hanzo reached slowly for his cup. “I… see.”
Cole Cassidy, an uninspired novelist, meets a stranger at a quiet café on a rainy evening in the late 1990s. A casual conversation about a half-made-up story lingers longer than expected.
Bookmarked by Azanio
18 Jul 2025
