“Pluto’s Garden.”
He is still heaving and puffing when he gets into bed early the next morning. His wife wakes up to his shoes flung across the room.
-sorry, he offers.
She can see it in his face though. Someone has made him feel small. She tells him to come to bed and embraces him. He relaxes into her, puts his head so he can hear her heartbeat. She knows when he falls asleep. She falls on her back and bears his weight.
Dramatis Personae
Richard E. Williams-President
Hadiza William-First Lady
