The Night Before
The eve of change
9 min readAug 26, 2023
She is sitting alone on the worn-out brown sofa, a silent presence in the large sitting-room’s dim yellowish light. Her house is now becoming quiet, visited by the long shadows of the evening. She is only hearing the regular snoring of her old dog, Luna.
Her own light snoring, on the other hand, always annoyed her husband. He deplored it so much that, one night, he made up a cot…