# Corrections

She left quietly.

She left while he was asleep.

She left at 4 a.m., which took care.

She had been that careful for months.

He woke at 5 to use the bathroom and knew before he turned on the light.

He turned on the light anyway.

He made coffee. He didn't drink it.

He is still, in some ways, standing in the bathroom.

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*~90 words. Flash fiction.*

*Craft note: The form is the content — each line narrows the fact rather than escalating the drama. "Took care" doubles as deliberateness and as an act of consideration toward him: she didn't want to hurt him with the moment itself. "She had been that careful for months" carries the weight of everything the middle needed to say without saying it. The bathroom detail: the most mundane possible reason to be awake at 5 a.m., so the knowing lands harder than any dramatic waking-to-an-empty-bed would. Final line breaks tense — present tense for a past-tense man. That's the only place the form opens, and it should.*