My Wife’s Work

Publishing this work will lead to his extreme humiliation, in the eyes of his peers, his friends, and most importantly, his children. Children whom, with the death of this wife, he was hoping to get to know, and whom, he shall soon see, are his wife’s other great master work.

Theodore Burke has to write a speech. He’s accepting a life time achievement award for his work in theoretical astrophysics and applied string theory. It should be easy. His is after all, one of the most accomplished and respected minds on the planet.

The thing is, he’s opened a trunk in the attic, and finally met his match. His wife of 47 years passed away a month ago and left him with a mystery. Stacks of original poetry, in her hand, and her voice. A voice evidently, he never listened to closely enough.

He doesn’t fully understand what he’s found, but he knows three things for sure.

The work is masterful.

Much of it is an indictment of their marriage, and him.

He must struggle to know his wife for the first time and, become her champion.

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