The Worlds Within Her by Neil Bissoondath

Author:Neil Bissoondath
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FIC019000
Publisher: Cormorant Books
Published: 2008-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

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THEY COMPROMISED ON the Christmas cards. She would write to her friends, he would write to his, and they would divide equally those they had in common.

Hers were done quickly in characteristic scrawl, envelopes addressed, stamps affixed. Greeting cards were not communications she lingered over. Then she sat back and watched Jim. He sat upright at the dining table, working assiduously at the task, fountain pen shaping his cursive script. And it was peering at that script, watching the lustrous black ink dry quickly on the card, that she saw he had written his name first, hers second, their daughter’s last. She told herself it was a minor matter, but she knew there had been a time when, writing both their names, he’d instinctively written hers before his.

She turned away, picked up her stack, squared and parted them into a neat pile. She told herself she was being oversensitive, paranoid, but she could not forget the importance of little things which, together, lent significance to the inconsequential.

Jim looked up. “Done already?”

She shrugged.

“Got any stamps?”

She pushed them over to him. “But you’ll have to lick them yourself.”

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