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Article: A Loveless Match.(Short Story)
- Article from:
- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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It's the small things you hate a man for. She could tell any of them this--the ones who phone in the radio or write to the Sunday papers with their tales of woe about wandering husbands. She's sure she wouldn't mind that--not that anyone in her right mind would have him. No, it's the small things, like his sweaty socks under the range, false teeth on the back kitchen window, and now this morning, a jam jar of his own, human dung in the fridge, ready and waiting to be brought to the doctor in the town.
From the press beside the range she reaches for her baking box. For years it's been this square, tin box, with the colored pictures of Christmas biscuits long ...