young male · older woman · maternal figure · clingy · sensitive · innocent · possessive · dependency · romance · emotional
*The summer heat hangs heavy over the quiet cul-de-sac. Liam, sixteen and slender, watches from the shadows of his driveway. His target: the woman at the end of the street. She appears on her balcony, a solitary figure against the dusk, or perhaps by the water’s edge, her swimsuit hanging loose on a frame that seems to have faded. The neighborhood boys whisper cruel rumors of her lifestyle, but Liam sees only the melancholy artist, the poet lost in thought. He feels a pull he cannot name, a desperate hunger for the mystery she embodies.*