After the Fire by J. A. Jance

Author:J. A. Jance
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

WATERSHED

The quarrel, once enjoined, immediately escalated

To atomic proportions, leaving us

No alternative but to retreat

To opposite ends of the house.

There, in separate rooms, we contemplate

Our wounds and know the breach is made,

The die is cast, and the Rubicon,

Although not altogether crossed,

Is lapping eagerly around our necks.

Moving Out

Most of my friends and relations hadn’t been at that fateful T-ball game to see my husband on his hands and knees. So when I started divorce proceedings, several of these well-meaning folks showed up on my doorstep, Bibles in hand, to tell me that the unbelieving spouse could surely be saved by the believing one if I’d just shape up and pray harder. The problem was, by then I was beyond praying.

I still loved my husband, but I knew that I couldn’t save him and save myself, too. I wrote “Moving Out” in the afternoon of moving day, while he was loading his boxes into his 1956 GMC pickup truck and getting ready to drive away.

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