I Bought A Plane Ticket To Surprise My Pilot Husband On Our Anniversary

from my fingers into my purse pocket.

The silver pen remained still on Karen’s yellow pad when I sat down at eleven o’clock the next morning.

She did not offer me tea this time, nor did she make any comment about the clear autumn sky outside her high-rise window.

Instead, she reached for the blue legal folder that lay exactly in the center of the mahogany continue reading …