"Hello" [55-word story] | 6

In their smallest interactions, he felt his own deeper self emerging. Deeper? Well, there was something more vibrant, more energized. His capacity for charm, even something of wit, -- what was it about her presence that sparked this . . . almost efflorescence? Really, yes, a change in personality.

She’d merely said “Hello.”

“Hell” he said, very slowly. “Oh!”