Story He Rang on the Twenty-Second of December, on the House Phone
Part five of five. Fifty minutes, standing at the sink with wet hands, and a dead phone in a drawer in the hall that nobody will throw away.
Relationship Betrayals
Original fiction. These stories deal with betrayal without wallowing in it, and every one of them has an actual ending.
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Story He Told Her Everything, Badly, and Out of Order
Part four of five. Two and a half years of information delivered in one afternoon by a man who had been carrying it alone.
Story She Asked Him on a Sunday, Standing Up, With the Radio On
Part three of five. He did not look surprised, which she had braced for. He did not look guilty, which she had also braced for.
Story Fourteen Days of Watching a Man She Had Been Married to for Twenty-Nine Years
Part two of five. This is the part people find hardest to understand, and the part she has least interest in defending.
Story A Charged Phone in a Shed Is a Phone Somebody Is Using
Part one of five. It was in a margarine tub, under a folded tarpaulin, behind the tins of screws. It was not the phone that frightened her.