Starlet Gone

A short piece about the fading of a star[let]

"i want for myself too much to speak of my love." she said her eyes turning to rain in the darkness.

"i am a selfish and lost soul dear heart. do not look to me, nor depend on me for i am as inconstant as the moon and not nearly as pretty to look at."

She mumbled before lighting a cigarette. Sucking down the smoke, inhaling clouds,

"you are too pure for me with white picket fences in your eyes and an unspoiled dream in your heart. you want a sugar spun girl, and i'm sour like red wine. too much red wine to fill my heart. not enough fire in my veins to change. oh never. never. never shall i change."

She concluded putting the cigarette out on her arm.

There was a note when she left. She wrote it on coffee-stained pink notepaper. It read:

you will be here
long after i am gone
as it should
be. i never was.
should anyone say
different take them
to the ocean
and drown them.

LOVE YOUR STARSHINE ♥

Her lover came home that day to ashes and paper and a girl no where to be found. He would search for her forever, the way Humbert pined eternal for his lost Lolita. He would search for her forever. How was he to know it was best never to find her?

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Author's Note

The I's in the starlet's lines are lowercase on purpose because she does not value herself. I don't know where this is going but it's something I felt compelled to write.

Reviews

[Cass Cumerford]

am very interested in the girl-----have thought i knew two like her.. but did I really??? thought provocing and made me want more which is rare on this cafe site,....well begun

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Powerful, that's the only word that comes to mind. Keep it up!

[Adela Muresan]

It's beautiful.
I totally enjoyed it, even dough the part with the ocean is a little disturbing and radical.

A.M.

[The Lady Anasteja]

Where does she go? What does she do? How does he go about looking for her? Do they cross paths again?? MORE! I want MORE!

Brilliant!!