Writers Tribe Review: Sacrifice Writers Tribe Review, Vol. 2, Issue 2 | Page 27

“Do you ever get the feeling we’ve done this before?”

Done what?

“This—us. I feel like I already know you.”

Maybe you do,” she says speaking through a permanent smile.

“I would remember meeting you,”

Must have been in another life then.

“Must have been.”

Lying down in the grass, Sativa stumbles over Skye as she sits down excitedly next to him.

Try this with me.

“What is it?”

It’s called LSD.

“What’s it do?”

Makes you see the world behind this one.

“Let’s do it.”

Sativa has two pills in her hand—Skye takes one. They lay back down in the grass and their thoughts start to drift. Further away from reality they gravitate until they lost all sense of it—hearts stop.

***

First eyes meet at a coffee shop on a university campus—it’s a Monday morning. He holds the door open for her as she exits the café, latte in hand. She looks into his eyes

latte.

“Oh God, I am so sorry. Did I get you—are you burned? I am such a klutz.”

Embarrassed, she tries to play it off by wiping her hands all over her pants as if it’s a napkin.