Five minutes until my first Teams meeting. I'm still in pajamas but you are showered and ready for an appointment. You grab your car keys and step out while I stand in the doorway, waiting, watching as the garage door rolls down, the rectangle of light diminishing, then expanding again. Perhaps you remembered. The hug, the peck on the cheek: our ritual when you/we used to leave for work. You rush in — “I forgot” — grab your coffee mug from the kitchen, and out again. I log in on my computer and say a cheery “Good Morning” to others like me.
Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American writer. She is the author of Morsels of Purple, a flash collection, and Skin Over Milk, a chapbook. Find Sara at saraspunyfingers.com and on Twitter @PunyFingers.