✤ Adrian ✤
Four months felt like a lifetime and a blink of an eye all at once. I no longer worked at the university. I was no longer married. The version of my life that had once had shape and purpose had been dismantled. The days all seemed to stretch and bled into one another so easily that it only added to the hollowness I felt inside of me. I was barely living. I slept late, much later than I cared to admit, I watched far too much TV, and accomplished next to nothing. I willed my phone to ring with a name I had sworn to forget.
But my phone never rang.
Her name never appeared, not even for a text message. I was alone, and I tried to tell myself this was temporary. That this hollow feeling was part of the adjustment. A necessary shedding before something new could grow. But most da
