Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates: The wife had to wonder if the marriage had been a mistake.
That they were “not young,” though described by observers as “amazingly youthful,” must have been a strong component of their attraction to each other. K__, a widow, and T__, divorced a decade previously , each lonely amid a busy milieu of friends and colleagues. The widow believed herself more devastated by life than the new husband, whose reputation as a historian and a public intellectual reinforced the collective impression that he was a man whom life had treated well.
Shifting his shoulders from side to side, as if trying to free himself from some sort of restraint that allowed him only an inch or two of movement: the wife envisioned a nightmare cobweb in which the husband was caught like an insect; the more he writhed the more entangled he was, and the wife, lying close beside him in the rumpled bed, in immediate danger of being trapped in the web as well and devoured by—what? The wife’s heart was beating hard, in anticipation of waking the husband.
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