Wistful Thinking

By Suzanne Readsmith

Who knows what is going to happen next in any relationship? Can a woman ever relax & simply enjoy what is hers? When trouble hits home for one loving couple neither of them can escape the pain nor anguish that follows. Breaking up is hard to do especially when you've been together for thirty years. One woman thinks hard about freeing her man to jump straight into the arms of another loving woman.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Suzanne Readsmith
• Release date: Jan 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465858542

Suzanne Readsmith

I write about people, their relationships and the dynamics within. I feature my work on website conversantwoman.com I enjoy illustrating the wide range of emotions experienced in life by people of both genders and the permutations of social and personal cultural influences. I like to reach out and to make contact with readers walking beside them and not leaving them before I have evoked within them thought provoking emotions strung between tragedy and joy. I am a person touched by the irony of life and human frailty. Writing is as much a need for me as a want. I find myself traversing internalised continents exploring the complexities of life. Sometimes I have experienced life to be hard hitting, startling and scary which is true for so many people. I love my family and enjoy reading, gardening, painting and travelling.

Book preview

WISTFUL THINKING

By

Suzanne Readsmith

SMASHWORDS EDITION

* * * * *

PUBLISHED BY:

Suzanne Readsmith on Smashwords

Copyright © 2012 Suzanne Readsmith

Thank you for downloading this story. It follows a number of stories that I have uploaded for readers to enjoy free of charge, which include:

‘Letting Him Stay’

‘Caught on the Hop’

‘The Girl with No Name’

You are welcome to share it with your friends. This story may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form, with the exception of quotes used in reviews.

Your support and respect for the property of this author is appreciated.

This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

Kate was awake but most reluctant to open her eyes. She tried to get back to sleep but her efforts were fruitless as her brain was already in fifth gear. She ought to arise and face up to life but she really didn’t want to. Today was going to be a bad day. She propped herself up onto her elbow to study the back of her husband’s head. He slept so far away from her these days it would be just as well if the kids were young again and sleeping between them. If he were to place himself any nearer to the edge of the bed he might fall out. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad. After twenty seven years of marriage he might try to be a little less obvious in his rejection of her, which had been going on for a few months now. It would appear she was still wanted in one way, as a wife who brought home a decent salary perhaps. Yet as a lover, not at all! She felt like yoghurt that had reached its sell by date.

Like a moth drawn to light she slipped quietly out of bed and made for the window. There was a recognisable white light emanating through the curtains. Shivering she collected her dressing gown on the way across to the window. It could only mean snow. Drawing back the curtain slightly she was proved right.

Reviews for Wistful Thinking

[Cindy Mahoney · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Although drawn to the bullet point suffering and angst that fuel these type of stories I can not emphasize enough that although extremely well written and focused on the highlight as readers yearn ,all of the other essential aspects of the tale are equally important and they are missing! Closure is essential for our mental health!
I rated on the merits without consideration of the deleterious brevity and despite the dearth of a required full bodied ,360 degree completed.saga. Essential elements are lacking leaving the reader flapping in the wind,something that in this type of topic,should never be done!