Jenny had expected him to be different, just not like this. It had been three years since she had seen him, including COVID and all that. After their graduate program, Alan had moved to Amsterdam, then to Paris, then inexplicably to Buenos Aires. Now he was on his way back to Paris, and she suggested he might as well take a layover in New York to visit. She told him he could stay for a week until she left town for Thanksgiving. He booked his flights to spend 5 days in the city….
Originally published in Fraidy Cat Quarterly.