When We Were Killers

‘Humans have forgotten how to be nocturnal,’

‘He was an abbot who carried the teachings of Martin Luther to Scotland. But the archbishop, James Beaton, considered them heresy and sentenced Hamilton to death in 1528.’

already had more than a lifetime of bad luck without old Patrick Hamilton thinking he could make it worse. But if there was anything that could alienate me more on my first day, it was the wither of her gaze and the tone of her words.

my mind was still filled with her.

A woman who captivated me from the moment we met.

My life has been defined by tragedy and yet I begin with hope.

Maybe it’s just me who lies beside her each night, broken, depleted, waiting for life to linger no more

Maybe it’s just me who lies beside her each night, broken, depleted, waiting for life to linger no more.

How long did it linger?

Life lingered in her.