Ex-husband Wanted an Open Marriage With My Sister
It might have been a fence, or a castle, or maybe just a random scribble by a four-year-old child.
He yawned. His mouth opened wide, revealing his small baby teeth. His eyes narrowed in the yawn, with his eyelashes touching his lower eyelids. After the yawn, he rubbed his eyes, rubbing his fists against his eyelids a few times. Then he put his hands back on the low table and continued drawing.
Jenny’s fingers released their grip on the low wall. Gravel particles fell from her palms and drifted away in the night breeze. Her palms bore the imprint of the gravel, with several shallow red scratches running across the palm lines, glimmering faintly under the streetlight.