The Lottery of Fate
“Right! Miss Cast said anything she wanted, she already packed and took.
Everything left in the apartment is trash we can throw out.”
She said it casually, almost cheerfully,
and tossed the entire box outside.
All those memories, every soft, stupidly happy moment between us,
tumbled straight into the trash.
Adrian walked away like a man who had forgotten how to breathe.
The streets were empty on New Year’s Eve,
except for couples leaning into each other,
wrapped in their own little worlds.
But to him, every pair of lovers blurred into—
Me and that man in Miami.