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

He set the table; I brewed the coffee. He read aloud snippets from the news that he found particularly infuriating. I corrected the grammar in them, loudly. We moved around each other with a surprising ease, handing off tasks as if we had rehearsed for this without knowing it.

That morning, as weak November sun broke through days of cloud, Thomas suggested continue reading …