Dean

Name: Dean
Author: Katie Dowe

60 pages

Can be read as a standalone story.

The press called her the unlikely bride.

They got it wrong.

I’m the unlikely one.

A Collier man asking a kindergarten teacher to save him.

I’ve slept with royalty. Society women. Women whose names I never learned.

Then I watched a woman in a budget dress quietly steal canapés off a buffet table.

Not for herself.

For the homeless men she’d passed on the way in.

In a room full of people pretending to care, she was the only one who actually did.

I told myself it was curiosity.

Then I told myself it was lust.

Then I showed up at her door with a sculpture that cost more than her annual salary.

I’m not a good man. My blood is bad. My name is a warning.

She knew all of it. Read every headline.

And she looked at me like I was worth saving anyway.

The press wanted a scandal.

What they got was something they couldn’t explain.

Neither could I.

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