She sets the table. Puts out the soup, toasts the bread, heats the mushrooms. Absentmindedly she picks up the red handled spoons from the holder and lays them next to the mismatched plates. The microwave pings and the oven buzzes. Both the mushrooms and the bread are done. She sets it out on the small [...]
The spoils of a conquest
A pure white hair-band lying on the floor. In front of the drawn curtains.
The roller chair, abandoned between the room.
Flowers knocked over from the glass vase. The vase, amazingly, unbroken.
The laptop lying on its side with its charging cord dangling from the side.
The book, the page you were reading preserved so preciously till now, on [...]
