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My Affair has Ended — Take One

You think you can just waltz back into your happy little family like nothing happened…

Juniper Less
Mmm Mondays — Life Matters
4 min readAug 12, 2024

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A middle-aged man looking guilty
John — Waiting

My affair had ended, yet I couldn’t help thinking that wouldn’t be the last of it.

A couple of weeks passed.

The house was quiet. Mary had taken the kids to her sister’s for the weekend, with orders that I decorate the bedroom while they were gone. I was alone, the silence was deafening. After all that had gone on over the last six months, I’d enjoyed the family noise. It seemed to mask my feelings of guilt.

I had just started the arduous process of stripping the walls when the doorbell rang.

I opened it, shocked, to find Mike standing there. Eyes dark. Jaw tight.

“Hey, pal.” I managed to say before he pushed past me into the hallway. He smelled of alcohol and fresh sweat. A dangerous combination. “Mike, what the hell…”

He spun round, and before I could react, his fist was in my face. Pain exploded through my head, sending me stumbling back against the door. Blood in my mouth. I wasn’t sure what to do, so I just stood there, waiting, glancing…

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Mmm Mondays — Life Matters
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Juniper Less
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Written by Juniper Less

Writing a bit of this, and a bit of the other... "Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved." Less is More https://medium.com/juniper-berries

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