Sliver of Lover

Title: Sliver of Lover
Characters: Jack
Word count: 100
Challenge: tw100 prompt: Random title generator. Title generated "Sliver of Lover"
Rating/Warning: PG

He catches them out of the corner of his eye, sometimes in the face of a stranger. The ghosts of his past hovering in his brain, tricking his sight.  Or maybe he really does see them. He knows there are stranger things in this world.

Sometimes he turns, tries to see them properly, as if he could grab hold and look on them one last time.

It never works. He can never see them again, never be with them again. So he makes do with what he gets.

Just a glimpse, a taste, a sliver of lovers long since gone.