Are You Awake?

by Claire McGowan

Or maybe she just watched too many true-crime documentaries on Netflix, since they were the only thing she could focus on without falling asleep.

People changed. They went on without you and soon you didn’t know them at all. Somehow that thought was so difficult, so unwieldy and sad, that he felt breathless.

She would have been less annoyed with him if he’d just share her misery sometimes.