His once dear ex-wife has died at 59, 30 years after their sad divorce. No words, sightings, or news between them for half his life. Cause of death unreported. It’s as if he’s lost a slumbering phantom limb—with all real feeling gone and now none even to be imagined.
Lynn Kozlowski’s writing has appeared in such places as 50-Word Stories, The Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Poetry Breakfast, and failbetter.com. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.
Truth!
Very touching
This one hits home, my own ex-wife died on the operating table and I didn’t find out for two years, when I tried to tell her about my sister passing. I’ve been dreaming about her ever since.
This seems to capture the confusion, sadness and finality of this event, an experience so many of us have pondered. Well done. .
So well done, Lynn—capturing a feeling many experience but few can express.
This story is an ending but also to opportunity for a beginning. Some people would accept this and ponder it and some people would turn into a detective.
When My ex died I discovered there were only visible pics of her and I on her facebook account in spite of losing touch for 9 years. Which is something entirely different to wonder about.