Daniel Wallace is the author of six novels. In 2019, he won the Harper Lee Award and is currently directing the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Always" is in Short Circuit #02, Short Édition's quarterly review.

They went out for a coffee and then the next night went out for dinner and the next they didn't go anywhere but to her apartment where they had a massively wonderful night in bed. The sex was nightly after that for weeks, and when he spent the night they did it in the morning as well. He stumbled through the day half-numb, his brain filled with cobwebs. He felt like he lived far away now, in a foreign country, a world where only two people lived, she and him, and they were having sex in it all the time, and they were exhausted and their lips were raw, almost bleeding, from kissing so long and

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