Friday, November 1, 2019

Today's writing


She stood in the shower for as long as anyone should in drought-intolerant Berkeley, scrubbing, scrubbing. It was two-thirty. She really didn’t have to pick up Lennon for another hour, but lying to Jack seemed to be the least of what she’d done that afternoon.

The guilt was beginning to settle, and it was not light on her shoulders. Bricks felt better, more forgiving. The streak of not having kissed anyone else since hooking up with her husband? Gone. The fidelity she’d maintained all these years? Evaporated. The virtue of doing what one is supposed to do in wedded bliss? Shown to be a complete sham.

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