Pastrami Days by Martin Haworth

Prompt: Coming Undone Word count: 1200 Genre: Contemporary Romance

Please note: – This story mentions 9/11 as part of the general timeline and consequences. I would not wish to upset anyone.

Michael saw the meat fall as he bit into the thick sandwich. He’d thought he wouldn’t be able to get it in his mouth. The pastrami on rye, wasn’t quite. It was more pastrami on table. The sandwich was huge and it was the size of it that took him back all those years.

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They’d been on a last-minute trip of a lifetime to see the sights of the Big Apple. For Jess, though, it was more than that, for she was starting her new life as well. The New York office job at Cantor Fitzgerald was an opportunity she could never pass up on, he knew that, but he worried he would lose her when she started there, across the wide Atlantic.

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