My Statue Husband
"You talk like you know what that feels like."
Stan slowly walked over and sat down on the far end of the couch. The cushion dipped heavily under his weight. Up close, under the sharp light of her desk lamp, Vivian could see the dark circles etched beneath his eyes, the faint white scars running along his collarbone, and something else—something that made her pulse stutter.
The veins along his neck were pulsing with a strange, faint violet light. It flared under his skin, rhythmic and unnatural, like a dying star trapped inside his veins.