I woke from my nap soaked in sweat, shivering. I felt chest pain.
In the kitchen my wife had my heart on a cutting board. I watched as she jabbed a fork in and sawed with a steak knife.
“Whoa,” I said. “Easy there.”
The whole marriage was like that.
Over the years Bob Thurber’s work has received a long list of awards and appeared in 30 anthologies. His most recent book is a collection of brief stories titled Nothing But Trouble. Visit BobThurber.net.
You certainly have a way of getting to the heart of marriage. Well done 5
Well, some marriages at least! Not mine, and not Bob’s, judging by his previous story. :)
Er, and I missed Connell’s pun. :P
Yes, it’s the second time Bob has had the heart to get to the heart of this heartfelt topic. I wonder if there is a third way.
Tim has raised an interesting point as to which one is fiction. I imagine the truth for most people is somewhere on an endless sliding scale of possibilities between the two.
I heartily enjoyed the macabre imagery.