They Went on a Holiday Cruise and Left Me With a Man They Called a “Problem”

” I warned him.

“It’s already a thing,” he said. “It’s absolutely a thing.”

We ate. The food was good, the conversation easier than I had expected. They told stories from the cruise, absurd and self-deprecating, their voices finding a more honest register now that the pretense had been stripped away. Thomas recounted, in his measured, theatrical way,continue reading …