REFLECTION of WARD COURIER

July, 2008

SOUTH WALES, NY

The summer was in full swing. Things with Lys Mall were not. She was out of town more than she was in, and I had learned not to expect explanations. As I tracked the last four months of our acquaintance, we'd had a handful of evenings and events together, but nothing that symbolized that a relationship or even sex was coming. We hadn't had any real fights, but despite my earlier resolution, I had made no overt ...