Someone You Can Build a Nest In

by John Wiswell

Romance was awful. She couldn’t even do something as simple as murdering rude people anymore.

“Would you say yes if someone proposed marriage in here?” “I . . . I don’t know. This is all so sudden. I know I’m well to do, and have an effect on women, but do you feel like . . .” “I’m not asking you to marry me. I’m asking if this room is suitably romantic.”