Touch does not lie.<\/strong> Fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, a male stranger touched me. He worked at the building outside my apartment block but he was a stranger to me. I was not on speaking terms with him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was trying to make a point. He pleaded for acceptance as an intimate partner. He had told his colleague in a loud voice, he was sickly and wanted a woman to take care of him. The loud tone was deliberate. I ignored it because I knew I wasn’t that woman. I had my own family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, when I stopped by his office to drop off a few envelopes at his building, he reached out to grab my right index finger. Just like that. Without provocation from my part. It was the weirdest freaky act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His touch was firm. His skin, smooth. Unlikely from a sick man. Touch does not lie. He is not sick. He should not be fishing for a woman to ensnare in domestic slavery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing prompt from BraveWrite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udde3#BraveWrite<\/a> Prompt June 17:

Touch

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