100 Words about Distance

(This bit of short fiction was written as part of a blog for the FastCupid dating site on April 21, 2008) They sat a foot apart, their hands almost touching on the tabletop, but not quite. He looked out the window, she at an invisible spot on her sleeve. They had little time left and only enough room for silence. Once they’d been one: he’d slip into bed and she’d put her arms around him without waking. They knew each others’ thoughts. They’d make love for hours, amazing even themselves. He once said he didn’t want an atom of separation between their bodies; she said that made her love him even more. Now an infinite, unbridgeable distance lay between them, forever.