Spicy Hot
But I didn't.
I stayed sitting on my sofa, the letter in my hand, watching the candle flame flicker. And I thought. I thought about that emptiness I had been carrying for years, that hole inside me that nothing could fill. The nights I woke with a start, heart pounding, not knowing why. The days I watched people in the street wondering how they managed to look so alive. The evenings drinking one too many glasses, sleeping with the first person who came along, coming home alone in the morning with a taste of ashes in my mouth.
This letter was the first thing in years that made my heart beat. The first thing that promised me something other than grey, bland, déjà vu. The first thing that told