What if I hadn’t moved to this city and rented the apartment, right next to hers?
What if our paths hadn’t crossed at the bus stop, the coffee shop, the market?
What if she had let me love her and she had loved me back?
Would she still be alive?
Rita Riebel Mitchell writes in the Pinelands of South Jersey where she lives amongst the trees with her husband. Her work appears in HAD, Flash Fiction Magazine, Versification, and more. Find her at ritariebelmitchell.com/friday-micro/.
