He Sat With Her

Photo by Chandler Langley on Unsplash — an interpretation of the setting, not the moment itself.

Every morning she ate alone on the same bench outside the bakery. One day he sat down at the other end with his coffee. He came back the next day, and the one after. They never exchanged names. They didn’t need to. The bench is still theirs.

This story was submitted anonymously. We wrote it down, because someone should remember.

— We Are Silence Dogood