The Master Puzzler is gone now.

Her delicate hands used to glide across the pieces, choosing keys and locks, like chocolates from a jewel box.

The cover was always overturned. She said, “You’re not doing the puzzle if you look at the picture.”

I sit alone, piecing the remaining fragments.

Teresa Del Mastro lives in Toronto. She has co-authored, with Kerry Hodgson, a collection of ten coffee break meet-cutes called Sugar with that?