“Regardless I Meant Every Word” by Samora Merchant
“Here was the moment she had been waiting for since that first dance they shared in that crappy club in Providence. From the moment he had embraced her in his muscular arms while they danced to the rhythm of the slow reggae music, she knew. She loved Zaire.”
“Half-Lived” by Makayla Wurz
“Yet even in the hollow of his zombie mind, he carried her memory—the echo of love in a half-lived life.”