Dreadful Sink

That dreadful sink. Audrey pulled out the plunger and gave the drain a perfunctory clearing. Over the thirty plus years of her marriage the drain had clogged thousands of times. She didn’t dare complain because she was the reason it clogged so easily.

When they built the house the plumber had said the sink must go in a place that the carpenter said could not be opened up for a window. Visualizing year after year of staring at a wall, she had demanded that the sink be placed in front of a window.

She put the plunger away, carefully scraped the plates, then looked out on a lovely sunset as she washed.

The Hub: Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
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