She called to ask if it bothered me that she and my ex were dating.

Sounds bad until we note that he and I broke up over thirty years ago.

I said fine, please invite me to your wedding.

Doesn’t the Girl Code include somewhere, anywhere, a statute of limitations?

Mary Hickey writes fiction, poetry, and book reviews, and has occasionally committed journalism. She plays way too much online backgammon as mamabear.