On Saturday Afternoon
by Ruth Madison
This is a somewhat longer short story that I wrote back in college. Since then it has appeared in my short story collection, Dev Dreams
and also in the collection Accessible Love Stories
with other authors (I believe I'm the only one with a disabled male character in that collection, but I'd have to go back to check).I'm working on more novels and longer works (including a series structured like a TV show), but in the meantime I hope you enjoy my shorter pieces! Come visit me at my website www.ruthmadison.com :)
(Because I have way too much fun creating mock up book covers!)
Em Matthews had a mother, a
father, a roommate, and a boyfriend, but only one friend. His name was James.
She met him at the hospital where she worked. Em volunteered doing odd jobs.
Technically, she was an intern and there to get some contacts in the field she
was studying. In practice, she swept a lot of floors.
She wasn't really sure that she
wanted to go into physical therapy anyway. To her mother, going to college was
just a distraction until Em got married. She thought this would be a good
choice because Em would meet eligible men, but then her mother had found Kyle
and that was that. James would not be what her mother considered an eligible
man.
