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

to a fault. If they could get us in the same space for a few days, they reasoned, maybe we would keep each other company, open up, form a support system of sorts.

“It might solve two problems at once,” one of them had written. “If we’re lucky, they won’t even realize what we’re doing.”

The fumigation, whether real or manufactured, was only part of the continue reading …