I. Herein Verick considered himself a fortunate man and saw no reason his friends should think otherwise. He had said as much to Whereas that morning in the queue outside the bay, watching the ring fill for the panels. "My wife wants for nothing." Not a boast. An accounting. "She has her berth, her name … Continue reading Lamp-Down (Grain Series)
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The Same Paper: On Love, Control & the Limits of the Outside View
I once said, in a public argument about a book that advocated for divorce, that if I found my wife reading it we would have a conversation about it. My wife is a surgeon and the family breadwinner; the idea that I could control her is faintly comic to anyone who knows us. None of … Continue reading The Same Paper: On Love, Control & the Limits of the Outside View
