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BOB THURBER: Reflection on my marriage to my high school sweetheart

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It felt like love, honest love, for a good long while. Then one morning in a bedroom without curtains I woke exactly as her eyes blinked open, our faces aligned in sunlight. I saw in her eyes what she saw in mine. And we both understood we’d only been dreaming.

Bob Thurber is the author of six books. Regarded as a master of Flash and Micro Fiction, his work has appeared in Esquire and other magazines, been anthologized 60 times, received a long list of awards, and been utilized in schools and colleges throughout the world. He resides in Massachusetts. Visit his website at BobThurber.net.

MAURA YZMORE: Roman Holiday

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On what I didn’t know would be our last vacation, I wanted drinking and dancing; you, museums and cathedrals.

I craved fun and abandon, a pretense there was still joy between us.

But you embraced the passage of time, beheld the mold and the rot, unflinching, preparing to let go.

Maura Yzmore is a writer and science professor based in the American Midwest. See more on her website and follow her on Twitter at @MauraYzmore