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

at the water, its stillness deceptive. Beneath the surface, things moved that you couldn’t see from here.

“I know that quiet,” I said. “After James died, the house was so loud with his absence I could barely think. People kept telling me I’d get used to it. As if one should become comfortable with a missing limb.”

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