Trapped In My Husband’s Golden Cage
She nodded and moved toward the door, and I followed, and we went to the game gate together the way we always did, side by side, the distance between us that was not quite close and not quite far, the distance of two people who had stopped negotiating it deliberately and simply arrived at whatever it was naturally.
The game was a pressure room. Two players, one mechanism, a series of counterweights that required constant coordinated adjustment to keep the floor level. If the floor tilted past forty-five degrees in either direction, both players slid toward whichever wall the floor was angling at, and the game registered a fail.
Thirty minutes. Keep the floor level.