We have had enough of these goodbyes.
Remember when they were tearful, but full of love, hugs, kisses, the kind of goodbyes you don’t want to suffer through?
Maybe I liked those better than the quiet quitting of our relationship, the way you just backed out like you didn’t feel like going to the game.
A game is all I’ve ever felt like, a person being played, a pawn in someone else’s life.
She doesn’t fit here, go there.
No, that’s not right, either, move here.
Until I’m knocked off the board, and you’re picking up the pieces and leaving.

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I’m on a mission to post 1,000 100 word stories! Follow this publication to keep reading them.
UPDATE 3/31/26 – I’m fucking tired of this project, this mission sucks, I’m stopping at 100 and then maybe in a few months I’ll do 100 more.
I’m experiencing with different writing styles, as long as they all add up to exactly 100 words, and trying a new AI image generator to help keep looking the same around here. I hope that doesn’t steer you away from my words.