Unraveling — A Romantic Short Story

AmorBooks
21 min readSep 8, 2022

When her marriage of over tens years comes to a slow, painful ending, she finds herself unsure and, almost incapable of going on with life. The idea of dating is foreign and even painful to her.

The realization that she has knit her life into another person’s and now she is watching it all unravel causes her to stop and examine all her choices.

Will she learn, get stronger and move forward or will she simply unravel?

Written by Rebecca Milton
Published by
AmorBooks

My divorce felt like it took ten years. I was married for twelve years so, you do the math. When Darren walked into the kitchen that Wednesday night, dropped his briefcase on the floor, looked at me with an expression that betrayed absolute repulsion, hatred, disappointment and, frankly, a tinge of animal lust and said:

“Fuck this nightmare, I can do this no longer, I want a divorce,” I threw my hands in the air and yelled hallelujah. Then, oddly enough, we fucked like rabid mongooses… mongeese… mongolias… I have no idea what the plural is or even why I am evoking them for this description, it was the first rabid animal that came to mind. Anyway, we fucked like mad on the kitchen floor to celebrate the two of us coming to the conclusion that we despised each other and could no longer fake the…

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