It originated from a short story I wrote some years ago and may yet have a change in title before I am done but essentially its about a woman and her struggle to re-establish a life for herself after the demise of her marriage.
Here is a little excerpt where the main character ,Suzie, is forced to tell her children that their dad has just become engaged to someone else :-
“Well
I wondered how you felt about it?”
Forrest admitted, refusing to meet her eyes. “I mean he was your husband
first.”
Yes
and of course technically he still was, although she omitted to give them that piece of information.
How did she feel? Betrayed? Relieved?
Sad? Like one door had closed but another had opened?
To
avoid the question for a moment she fetched a large bag of popcorn and tipped
it into a bowl. Watching the bowl fill up she knew suddenly how she could
explain herself.
“You
see all this popcorn?” she placed the bowl on the table. “it all looks alike,
doesn’t it?” she picked out two individual pieces. “But in fact every single
bit is different to every other bit, the way it pops, the angles and particular
shape it makes…so that finding two bits that can fit together is really hard.
Sometimes you can jam them together and the salt grains or toffee will make
them stick and other times it won't.”
She
watched Ellie select two bits and push them together.
“Well
people are like that too. Sometimes they can stick together and sometimes they
can’t. Your dad and I just were the type that couldn’t…” something caught her
eye and she dipped her hand into the bowl, plucking it out and curling her fist
around it.
“And
then sometimes - if you are really lucky - you find this,” she uncurled her fingers
to reveal two kernels of corn which had somehow in the popping process fused
together.
I hope to be posting some exciting news soon.
Until then - Happy Reading!
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