Story He Said He Had Taken the Job. Not That He Had Been Offered It.
Part one of five. Marianne was holding a colander of green beans when her husband told her, in the past tense, that they were moving eleven hundred kilometres.
Marriage Dilemmas
Fiction, written here, labelled as such. These are stories about the ordinary crossroads: money, moving, ageing parents and the things left unsaid.
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Story They Moved in February. Fixing the Tense Took Two Years.
Part five of five. The move was right. That turned out to be the complicating factor rather than the ending.
Story No, Because Then It Is Mine
Part four of five. He offered to turn the job down. She refused, for a reason that took him five weeks to understand.
Story The List She Wrote on the Back of an Envelope at Two in the Morning
Part three of five. Eleven things in one column, two things in the other, and the item that made the whole list impossible to argue with.
Story The Boarding Pass Was Still in the Pocket of the Jacket
Part two of five. She took his jacket to the dry cleaner, went through the pockets out of habit, and found out how many times he had already been.