“I’m picking up the tiller tomorrow. We have it for 24 hours.” “I’m sure that will be more than enough time. Maybe we can even use it up front to prepare the flower beds for next year?” David hesitated for a second, “I don’t know Vaness… let’s see how far we get in the back first.” At this point you and Jackie hadn’t yet had the talk… the talk where she had told you that one of your biggest flaws… (you had braced yourself for this) and even joked, “Nothing… I have no flaws because I’m...

“This can’t be for fucking real right now…” you said to yourself. You had seen it in your peripheral vision as you were washing your hands. It was late. You hadn’t been able to fall asleep right away, David on the other hand, had been out for at least an hour. You had gotten up to use the bathroom and when you were washing up, you caught it out of the corner of your eye. The flash of light was right there in the mirror… you would have sworn it before but now, turning around and catching it...

“Hey… excuse me? Yes, Yeah… Hi…” you call up to the woman parking her car in your yard again. This is the first time that you’ve actually been able to see who the person was. Every other time you’d come out to a car (one of many) that had been parked in your yard… and when you’d walk over to one of the neighboring houses (you were never sure which car belonged to whom in which house) to politely ask them to move, no one would ever answer the doors. It wasn’t that you took issue per se’ with...