Retired teacher, editor, I've been writing for publication (mostly but not exclusively fiction) for over 20 years. I aspire to "literary" fiction, but want it to be "commercial" as well, if that can be done. Short stories and novels, an occasional poem, and I'd like to try whatever "creative nonfiction" may be. It sounds like real fun!
Ruth Duchamp leaves New York to find a way to come to terms with a future she fears. She and her husband Alex married not so much in haste as with too little self-knowledge. After meeting in the city, Alex is intrigued by Ruth's differences from other women he has known, and she is drawn by his extracordinary looks and air of mystery. Over the years, boredom and unrelized hopes make Alex vulnerable to a predatory women, and when he asks for it, Ruth refuses to give him a divorce. How can their impasse be solved?