The Wives

by Tarryn Fisher

I love you all differently but equally.

You’re in control, I told myself. You’ll be his legal wife. I was so, so wrong.

I picked some up. I’ll make an excuse and get out of it. Love you.

It’s when you know they’re coming to inject you with more shit, or to tell you bad news, she’d said.

That I am whole and my husband is a one-woman man!

Seth only has one wife? That wife is me?

What are you up to, you fucking bastard?

You are crazy, you are crazy, you are crazy.

“You are only responsible for yourself.”