A Safe Place to Land

by Dee Ernst

  “Of course.”

  “OK then. I’ll send you a Power of Attorney, wire you the cash, and we can get going.”

  She squealed. Fifty-year-old women should not squeal, but that’s Terri for you.

  “Oh, Chris, I am so excited. And you know what the best part is?”

  I was smiling over the phone. “That you and I will be able to walk to each other’s houses every day?”

  “No, I meant, beside that. Steve McCann has a older brother. His name is Mike, and he has a beard, and he’s closer to our age, and I know the two of you would be perfect together.” She clicked off the phone before I could yell WTF?

  As a point of information, I eventually married that nice, quiet high school boy, and I eventually had an orgasm. But not with him.

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