In the ninth year of our marriage, my wife said, “How can I miss you if you don’t go away?” Really. Several times she offered this encouragement, calmly and in all sincerity.

Then I did go for a weekend. She missed me, but I found I did not miss her.

Lynn Kozlowski has appeared in The Citron Review, The Zodiac Review, Molecule, 50-Word Stories, Bright Flash Literary Review, Every Day Fiction, The Dribble Drabble Review, Friday Flash Fiction, and The Malahat Review. He has a volume of short pieces, Historical Markers.