“You’re home. Dinner’s on the counter. The kids have been a nightmare.”
His eyes move past me, his keys slide across the cold granite. He finds a plate, and walks to his office. The screen’s glow illuminates the man I once knew, now silent.
“Goodbye, then.”
I close the door.
Delancey Stewart is a fiction writer living in Southern Maryland. When no indulging her imagination, she works for the man as a tech writer and tends two small boys who, her husband assures her, are hers. Find her at http://delanceystewart.wordpress.com.
DELANCEY STEWART: Cold Distance,
It’s hard to pack so much into a 50 word story, but this is extremely well done. There’s some hope at the start that it’ll be nice that her hubbie is home then… it’s so tragic at the end.
Posted by JQ Trotter on January 11th, 2013.