“Ways” at Corium Magazine

This story was originally published in Dark Sky Magazine back in 2010 (a year or two before the journal went under). The good folks at Corium Magazine were kind enough to reprint it in their latest issue. It’s only a few hundred words, so I’m not bothering with an excerpt. Oh, fine…

There are three ways we can do this, he says to me. I elect for the second way, immediately, before he’s had time to explain any of the ways. Are you sure? he asks. I tell him I am sure. He says I ought to have selected the third way. I tell him I am quite smitten with the second way, thank you very much, and it would be difficult to change my mind at this point in time.