The Weight of Gold
Later she would think it was both at once — the kind of thing that has no initiator because both people arrived at it from the same direction at the same moment, which was the truest thing about them, which had been the truest thing about them from the beginning: they kept arriving at things at the same time, from different routes, to find each other already there.
The workshop was cold and smelled of sawdust and the chair stood in the morning light and outside the bright November day went on — the blue sky, the serious cold, the silver maples dropping the last of what they had to drop — and Eleanor Ashford stood in a workshop behind a gas station in a town she’d found by running out of gas