My wife is paralyzed, so I haven’t been inti:mate with her for four months. Out of deep frustration, I left her alone for ten days to go on a date with the younger sister of my colleague. And then… the unexpected happened.

interstate. A truck hydroplaned across two lanes, metal screamed, glass exploded, and when I reached Hannah in the hospital, half her body was still and the other half was trembling in shock. The doctors used careful words at first, then cruelly clear ones later, and by the end of the week we understood the shape of our new life: spinal damage, uncertain continue reading …