Hillary Kanter - Dead Men Are Easy To Love by Hillary Kanter

Author:Hillary Kanter [Kanter, Hillary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance: Fantasy - Historical - Time Travel - Humor
Publisher: Slightly Off Kanter Press
Published: 2012-06-10T05:00:00+00:00

THE THERAPY CHRONICLES:

Part One

Back in the present, where is Mr. Perfect? Mr. Perfect. Mr. Perfect.

Mr. Perfect Mr. Perfect. Mr. Perfect.

Mr. Perfect. Mr. Perfect. Mr. Perfect. Mr. Perfect?

“All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.”

–Stephen King, in The Shining

But seriously, it’s all about Mr. Perfect. My crush seems to grow stronger all the time. Sometimes I still think about flinging myself off the Fifty-ninth Street Bridge when I think about my “real” love life, in the present. Unavailable men are all I seem to meet. If I’m attracted, it’s certain they will be married, gay, or out of their minds. Plain and not-so-simple, I’m attracting men, but not the right ones. I can’t tell Mr. Perfect that the only love I’m experiencing these days that is, well…reciprocal, is in the past—with dead men. He’d have those guys in the little white coats deliver me to the loony bin.

I’m not even sure myself that I don’t belong there. I do question my sanity. Mum is the word, for at least the foreseeable future.

Today, I told Mr. Perfect that I loved him.

He sat back in his chair with arms folded across his chest and said,” Ariel, now you do know that your feelings for me are based on a fantasy, don’t you? You do know you don’t really know me, right? The reason is, I don’t bring anything about myself into this room, because I’m not here to talk about me, right? I’m here to talk about you, okay? So you couldn’t really know me, alright? So that means you can’t possibly really love me, you understand?” He paused with raised eyebrows, awaiting my response.

Matter-of-factly, I said, “Nope. I love you.”

He just stared at me for the longest time, then changed the subject. “Ariel, I know how much you want to find real love. Isn’t there anybody out there that maybe you’ve dated but you didn’t really give them a chance? You seem to break things off pretty quickly, you know? Have you ever thought maybe you judge men too fast?”

“Let’s see. Mr. Sociopath—as I called him during the precipitating event—I actually judged him too slow. And Dr. Ross, the crazy shrink I dated. And the matchmaking site guy, who showed up on a first date with an HIV negative report. There was also a married man or two that I’d concluded were a bad idea. Do I judge men too fast? No, not really,” I responded.

“Has it ever occurred to you that the reason you are attracted to unavailable men is that it’s ‘safe’? And that if you break it off first, then they won’t have a chance to break your heart?”

That posed an interesting question. More interesting still, in regards to the men I was meeting on my strange time-travels. Talk about unavailable men. Far be it from me to be sure of anything at this point, but I don’t think you can get more unavailable than dead. Could there be a connection?

Our hour was up before I had a chance to respond.

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