Reader, I didn’t marry him. Nice guy and he asked, but what woman in her right mind would settle down with an older guy with a crazy ex-wife. Okay, she wasn’t stuck in an attic, but then there was the matter of him not being Jewish. Oy. To top it off, he was color-blind, which led him to go through red lights, and he snored and he chewed with his mouth open—who wants to see that? We split up not so amicably and the very next week, he won PowerBall. Try chewing on that the rest of your life.

Susan Israel’s

fiction is published in Hawaii Review, Other Voices, and Vignette, and she has written for magazines, websites, and newspapers, including Girls Life, Glamour, Ladies Home Journal, and The Washington Post. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Author’s website: https://www.susanisrael.net/