The One I Lost Novels & Stories

Like a sound I could never quite hear but would never stop feeling. Fallon was gone. And this time, I couldn’t blame anyone else. Not the press. Not the contracts. Not my father. Not her. Just me. Because in the end, I didn’t lose her in one explosive moment. I lost her in a thousand quiet ones. And I didn’t realize it until she was nowhere left to find.

“Just tell it honestly.” “I could say that she was lovely. I feared losing her because she was the only one I have. Yes. I did love her.” Essi could feel some sadness and regret in Oneil’s voice while saying that. She kept her eyes closed while listening to them. She wanted to hear him say that all of those things are gone now, that Marika doesn’t matter anymore. But Oneil didn’t say it. He continued talking about his experience while being alone.

That I looked like a bag of bones and a piece of shit was confirmed when neither of my brothers called shotgun on the seat and settled in the back. When we took off, the radio raged with some old school Queen of the Stone Age. Quite fittingly, the song that was blaring out? ‘No One Knows.’ Even if it was one of my favorites, I grimaced. When the goddamn playlist agreed with you, things really were up in the air. DECLAN BEFORE “I’M SO sorry for your loss.” Though I wasn’t actually grieving, I’d admit that if I was, hearing that on repeat was going a long way to pissing me off.

I realized then—with a sharp, sick certainty— I hadn’t lost a wife. I’d lost the one person who had loved me without conditions. And this time— She wasn’t coming back.

the man shouted proudly before disappearing. The door slammed. Then I burst out laughing. “Okay,” I said, trying to catch my breath. “I already love your father.” John groaned, rubbing his forehead. “Maya, I am so sorry. He can be a lot.” “A lot is an understatement,” I said, still smiling. He passed me a glass of water. I almost choked again from laughing. After a moment, his expression shifted, softer now. “I lost my girlfriend five years ago,” he said. “Hit and run.”

Each physical attribute so much like the woman he’d lost and at the same time made new by the passage of time. He didn’t know how he was going to keep her from disappearing again, only that he was desperate to do so. The memory was all too vivid of the day he’d come home to their apartment to find her gone, with no word to anyone about where or how to find her. He paused as beside him, Teri stood tiptoe, stretching above her head for a small vial just out of her reach on the shelf.

, and she is sure that nobody has seen her wearing it within the hotel premises. Jon was a bit shocked. "The... The necklace?" "Yes," she answered with a smile. "The one you gave me on my nineteenth, you see Jon, I don't know what you may think, but I never wanted to lose it, as I've already lost you," she is becoming dramatic with her tone, but bit her lip and was trying her best not to laugh. "Oh, um. I didn't expect that you still have it. I'll do what I can, I promise." He was trying to assure her that everything will be alright. "Will see you in the morning, Viv. First thing," he hung up, trying to keep her calm. Stephanie was obviously frustrated, handed back his drink as he said, "Tha

I still remember it like it happened just yesterday, it's plain as day in my memory, the first time I saw Melvin Cross, the love of my life; I was a three year old kid who just got lost,I wandered the streets of California for days, I had just arrived there from Seoul, where I lived with my Asian Mother, I had never seen my father and I didn't even know I had a twin sister and my Mother's face I could barely remember, I was just a three-years old kid, lost, scared and hungry as I have been wandering the streets for three days, I was so hungry I thought I was gonna die soon, all I had on me was a locket necklace, which I remember my mother telling me not to loose it, I cried and cried, but fo

The day, I lost my way. From here forth, I wasn't gonna be the same. Not after I lost the one and only, thing in my life that I loved the most. My mother. I was here reason for living, she shouldn't have left me because now I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself. All by myself.....

"Sophia, Dante has been dealing with the gang war at the docks recently. He must be too busy, so he just bought whatever. How about... after we get married, I'll go with you to a proper mall to pick out a good one?" I picked up the cheap box and walked to the edge of the terrace. Under Elena's shocked gaze, I didn't even look at it and threw it straight down. Nothing could replace my mother. In that dark past life filled with smoke and betrayal, that pendant was my only emotional anchor. Since it was broken, let it be broken completely. "Sophia! How dare you..." Elena was so angry her face turned pale. I ignored her screaming. I was busy counting the contraband antibiotics for the illegal cl