When the Lights Go Out, the Vows Get Tested in the Dark

walked into the house and stopped, staring at the walker, the labels, the grab bars.

She didn’t speak right away.

Then she whispered, “It’s worse than I imagined.”

I nodded. “Yeah.”

She turned toward me, eyes wet. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

I wanted to say, Because you’d feel guilty, but instead I said, “Because every time I tried, you sounded like you were continue reading …