Elizabeth Sutherland

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“First Taste” by Elizabeth Sutherland

Submitted to Contest #231

It started when she’d overheard Gregory telling his sister on the phone that she wouldn’t hear them because she was taking a nap. He hadn’t even bothered to close their bedroom door in case she might be listening, able to overhear his affectionate mocking of her reluctance. He judged affection in a spouse sufficient to justify all kinds of belittling. He wouldn’t even have considered it belittling. But his words and tone had stung. He’d said she never had and never would. As if she isn’t brave enough. Or co...

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Fiction reader and writer who loves characters and the journeys on which they take us and themselves.