Piece of My Heart
7 min readDec 3, 2019
Winner of the 2019 OWT Short Fiction Prize
Valentine’s Day was always busy at Piece of My Heart. The couple waited in the doorway until I had a chance to dash over and greet them.
“Can I take your name please?” I asked.
“Jackson,” the man replied. “We have a booking.”
They were an odd couple. She was so thin she looked like she might snap. Her big blue…