09-20-2013, 08:46 PM
Hi, Mark! Questions are always welcome.
If you perceive a cheating subtext, then there is one. The reader completes the process. I will tell you that it was written from the perspective of being years into a long term committment ( at least that is the way it sounded in my own head).
Since you asked about the opening line I have to be truthful- I didn't construct it. It came to me whole, and the rest dumped out after. I wrote the entire piece in about fifteen minutes, then wondered if the opening line still fit. It was total stream of consciousness.
<---- this is cute. Do it again. 
If you perceive a cheating subtext, then there is one. The reader completes the process. I will tell you that it was written from the perspective of being years into a long term committment ( at least that is the way it sounded in my own head).
Since you asked about the opening line I have to be truthful- I didn't construct it. It came to me whole, and the rest dumped out after. I wrote the entire piece in about fifteen minutes, then wondered if the opening line still fit. It was total stream of consciousness.
<---- this is cute. Do it again.
PS. If you can, try your hand at giving some of the others a bit of feedback. If you already have, thanks, can you do some more?