We swore under the emerging stars and night sky at dusk. Feet bare, sinking into the cooling, golden sand. Waves lapped behind us, and the sun's dying rays skimmed the ocean's surface with brilliant flashes of orange.
You swore to stay for the better, the worse, in sickness, in health,
Until death.
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Red Flags
Short StoryWe swore to stay together. So when you shifted around, I stayed as an ever present shadow. There are more important matters than your affairs, James. I couldn't leave you because of them.
