✔️Roses Are Red: A Short Story

Rose is an ordinary thirty-six-year-old woman that lives alone in the dull blue facade of a quaint house, but after catching the attention of her charming next-door neighbor Dan, she has recently taken up rearranging her home in preparation for his visits. Rose redresses her house with shades of innocuous beige and demure chartreuse, attempting to hide the darker shades lurking just behind locked basement doors.

As Dan inches closer to the truth humming beneath the house, Rose's true colors begin to bleed through her blue curtains...