Kensington Gore

Lise Colas
11 min readFeb 1, 2018

For Valentine’s: a tale of horror, heartache and vintage heels

photo: dorota dylka/Unsplash

His blood reaches out to me across the polished flagstones, pooling in luxuriance half a centimetre from the toes of my new Belle Vivier pumps, as if about to kiss them. A perfect match for their patent sheen, the colour of a good Burgundy too, what a waste.

“Excuse me–” a man in a dark suit touches my arm and I step back.

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Lise Colas

writes poetry and short fiction as well as quirky unreliable memoir and lives on the south coast of England.