She was his first and third wives, taking him back after the unfortunate demise of wife number two. Few knew of wife number two’s severe allergy to peanuts. The tidy sum collected from her insurance policy payout funded the wedding wife number one thought she deserved in the first place.
Ashley Holloway writes from her kitchen in Calgary, AB.
She stood watching as the paramedics worked to revive the unconscious man. Loading him onto the gurney and into the ambulance, they took off, sirens blaring. As the crowd dissipated, she noticed discarded gloves left behind, empty of the hands that worked to save him. He was somebody’s boy. Once.
Ashley Holloway writes from her kitchen in Calgary, AB.
It started with a nibble at the corner of the page. Testing the shape of each letter on her tongue, the nibble grew to a bite. First a New Yorker, then Tolstoy, and before she knew it, she’d devoured Britannica’s 32. One could say she’d developed an appetite for discovery.
Ashley Holloway writes from her kitchen in Calgary, AB.