May 1926, Part 1

"While Delilah is entertaining a male visitor out front, Harvey enters through the back door for the first time in their 20 years together."

“Skål!” Niels Sørensen toasted his hosts, and they all downed a shot of akvavit.“Mercy me, that’s different!” Delilah laughed. “Is that caraway?”“By golly, I believe it is,” her husband Harvey replied.The Davenports had invited Niels to their apartment for farewell...

W Is For What Could Have Been

""I would invite you to my room, for sleeping only, but would that be improper?""

"Tell you a story?""Of a bygone love. I like learning more about your former paramours, Honey.""Love?" In my bed--which had recently become our bed--I rolled over into Jacob's arms. I was barely awake, as it was early Saturday morning. "How...