Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

by Clare Pooley

In her experience, most endings turned out to be beginnings in disguise.

Are you married?” “Yes. She’s called Candida,” he said. “Yikes. Like the yeast infection?” said Iona. “Well, your wife’s named after an insect. Candida is an ancient saint’s name, actually,” he explained, as he’d heard Candida do many times. “From the Latin for ‘pure white.’ ” “So, a racist yeast infection.

I CACKLED HAHAHAHAHHA

When the thing you’ve feared for so long actually happens, you have nothing left to be scared of anymore.

“The only way to be guaranteed of failure, dear boy, is not to try,” said Iona. “Love is the greatest risk of all, but a life without it is meaningless.”