I Took My Colleague for Him

In the first person, she reaches for the man she thinks is hers and finds a colleague in his place. The mistake would be funny if an affair, or a triangle, were not already the point. Touch, recognition, and dread arrive in the same second. By the time the light is honest, somebody's loyalty has been spent. / She can call it a trick of a dark room and beg the story to stay there. The two men, and anyone who saw her hesitate, may not agree. The next workday will force a name onto what her hands already decided.