Say it in a Song

By Katie Fitzgerald

It was pretty late. Was that a guitar?

Drowsily Jenna put on her robe and stepped into the blindingly bright dorm hallway. She blinked. “Ian?”

Lately, he’d been getting tongue-tied around her, but now he smiled around free-flowing lyrics.

Jenna lost herself in his warm brown eyes as she tried to focus. Was this what he’d been trying to say all along? It had always come out wrong before, but in his serenade, she heard the message.

She stepped closer. “I love you, too.” The strumming stopped as Ian’s lips met Jenna’s. Spoken or sung, they didn’t need words anymore.

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Katie Fitzgerald is the author of Library Lovebirds, an ebook collection of bookish romances, and a novel in flash, The Bennetts Bloom. Her short stories and flash fiction appear online at Spark Flash Fiction and Micromance Magazine, as well as in various anthologies. She is a 2024 Sparkie Award recipient for Best Romantic Suspense and a nominee for the Pushcart Prize and the Cupid Prize. A graduate of Vassar College and a trained librarian, Katie resides in Maryland with her husband and five kids.