Description
In the quiet stillness of the evening, he succumbs to his couch.
He flips through the cable channels looking for a distraction.
He finds a Dateline episode.
This will do, he thinks.
The show covers a mystery about a woman who recently went missing.
The thought of a woman makes him think of his soon-to-be ex-wife.
She betrayed him 11 months ago.
She took the kids.
And the house.
Now he rents a one-bedroom apartment in the city.
He can feel the weight of the emotional fatigue settling in.
He misses his kids.
He misses his old life.
He lets out a deep sigh into the quiet evening.
The echoes of his new challenges render him unable to stay awake past 9:30 PM.