Somebody Up There Likes Me

(Fiction) In my last mail to Snookie Lee, I had sent some morsels like these — affectionately, to make her smile — and she’d taken them all wrong: the whole story of Snooks and me. She was in San Antonio and I was in San Jose, and some people say that when a woman moves 1,500 miles from her mate to get a Ph.D. in women’s studies, it’s the beginning of the end, if not the end of the end, and refuting those prophets of woe is not easy. Yes, we had taken some bad falls, Snookie Lee and I. We were edging into the Humpty Dumpty zone. But I thought we could put it together again, and I was doing my best to convince Snookie of that.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Dec 1, 1994
Length: 34 minutes (8,675 words)