When Never Comes

by Barbara Davis

“Men like Stephen don’t cheat because they’re missing something at home, Christy-Lynn. They cheat because they’re missing something inside, so they take what they want and make it theirs, because they need to fill up all that empty space.

“All I’m saying is don’t live a smaller life than you deserve.”

She said the word never represents all the doors we keep closed, that when we say never we close ourselves off from the hope that things can ever be different.”