Vera works late in the kiln. There's no food in the house.
Ted eats out with his grad students. One doing the paper on the relationship between structuralism and the French concept of liberty starts to look interesting. They start going out after seminars. Vera continues to refine the pieces for her first show at Fort Mason. The cat runs away. Ted doesn't come home one night and Vera doesn't even mention it.
There's no milk for cereal and no fine ground Arabica coffee anymore. Ted and Eva start meeting for breakfast at the "Paris Pat" before classes. Vera's show "The White Collection" sells out, and an agent takes her on. Ted tells her that he's moving out.
Vera shrugs and says, my lawyer will call yours.
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This one could just stand alone as a wonderful piece of flash fiction. The whole story of this couple's splitting is told her - in precise, elegant, perfectly spare prose. Terrific job!
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