Story The Gas Bill Is Still in the Drawer, Under the Takeaway Menus
Part five of five. Her daughter has asked, in Fran’s own tone, what the point is. The answer is not romantic, and it is not about the housework.
Dating After 40
Original fiction. Dating later is a different proposition entirely, and considerably better material.
Story More like this
Story Two People Have Told Her It Sounds Cold. It Was the Opposite.
Part four of five. What Gordon used to do, why the list exists at all, and the two occasions item four has come up since.
Story He Read the List Twice, at the Table, All the Way Through
Part three of five. She showed him in June. He did not laugh, and he did not reassure her, and what he said instead took her a year to understand.
Story Fourteen Months, Four First Dates, and Item One Every Time
Part two of five. The part of the story nobody tells: the version where you decide what you want and then nothing happens for over a year.
Story She Wrote Nine Things on the Back of a Gas Bill
Part one of five. Nineteen years married, eleven months divorced, and a list written at a kitchen table that her sister said was far too specific.