There, is a pile of sheets, seeming so insignificant and delicate on the table two meters away. Yet, something pulls you towards it, and soon you see it right in front of your eyes. Words printed neatly on the first page atop the small pile, and something about it has your eyes drifting across each line. Subconsciously, you lift the single sheet and begin on the next. You delve deeper into the story, and too soon it ends. But there is the next one, the first words the beginning of a new story and a new adventure. You know its not worth your time, yet your body disagrees and soon you admit to the urge. The Short Passages have casted an unbreakable enchantment, and without knowing, you continue to walk onto the most thrilling rollercoaster ride.
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Highest rankings :
SHORT STORY: #176 {2017}
DESCRIPTION: #1 {Dec, 2019}
DESCRIPTIVE: #2 {April, 2019}
READ: #8 {Dec, 2019}
INSPIRATIONAL: #6 {Dec, 2019}
PASSAGES: #1 {Dec, 2019}
VARIETY: #1 {Dec, 2019}
INTERESTING: #9 {Dec, 2019}
MYSTERY: #7 {Sept, 2019}
MISERY: #8 {Sept, 2019}
It started with a look. It won't end with one.
She never meant to notice him - not like that.
But once she did, she couldn't stop.
A quiet woman begins to orbit a stranger, her fascination growing with every accidental meeting, every shared glance. To her, it feels like love - gentle, fated, inevitable.
Yet the more she looks, the less she truly sees him. What begins as longing slowly bends into something else: fixation, control, the illusion of connection.
The Way She Looked at Him starts as a tender, introspective love story and deepens into a study of obsession - how easily affection can become delusion, and how dangerous it is to mistake noticing for knowing.