Broken (a short scifi story)

My heart just shattered into minute pieces, each crafted in a perfectly similar shape. The shape of his face. He smiled at me just now, passing through the engine room as he inspected the ship. A fleeting smile of a man in a hurry, and it was the best thing he could give me. For half a second he was mine. And then he moved away from me. I followed him through the ship with my sensors, until I…