Micro Monday - February 16, 2026
The Breakup
Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a good Valentine’s Day, but for those who didn’t, today’s microfiction is for you.
This one originally appeared in Erica Drayton’s MicroZine as a response to the image prompt below, but I never posted it to my own site, so it’ll be new for most of you. Enjoy!
The Breakup
“Together or separate?”
“Together,” he lied.
She smiled, and didn’t that just twist the knife? He’d told himself that he was doing this for her: the date, the park, the ice cream shop. But honestly? He’d been stalling, working up his courage.
“So what did you want to talk about?”
“I think we should break up.”
She nodded. “I think so too.”
“You do?”
She licked her ice cream: chocolate, with rainbow sprinkles. “We go to school in different states. And... I met someone.”
“Who?”
“Does it matter?”
He wants to say no. His ice cream, melting, reaches his wrist.