While Preparing My Husband For Burial I Discovered Coordinates That Changed Everything

and the way she said it told me she had known there was a wife, that this was not new information, but that meeting the wife in the storage unit they had been sent to collect was a version of the situation she had not prepared for.

I told her she was his mistress.

She corrected me with a sharpness that I understood, later, was not cruelty but injury.continue reading …