“Consolation,” by André Alexis

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Fiction by André Alexis: He had promised to love her until they were in their nineties and fit only for lying in each other’s arms, staring happily at the moon and listening to the kiskadees.

When we got to her house, she came at me, all hundred and ten pounds of her, flailing, screaming, and cursing. It was like being assaulted by a very short scarecrow. I shouted back at her, pushed her away, and left the house, resolved never to see her again. I did not speak to her for almost two years. A mistake, because, in the time it took for me to overcome my hurt feelings, dementia gradually took hold of her, so that the woman I made up with was no longer the one I had angered.

In which case, it is likely that they were already sleeping together and that this evening was some sort of false flag, a way to throw their respective spouses off the scent by bringing friendship into the equation—the idea being that friends do not betray friends. I’m almost certain that my parents never went for dinner at the Wallers’, and I don’t know if my mother ever saw Sarah Waller again.

 

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