Sumana Khan won WM‘s Change short story competition with Eclipse. Read the full story and judging comments at: https://writ.rs/sumanakhan
The thought that she did not exist occurred to her as she rolled out chapatis for dinner. Perhaps that’s why she never managed to crawl out of the carcass of this marriage. Of course, she had stayed on for Dipu. She had promised herself that she’d walk out the day Dipu turned eighteen. Then, the deadline got pushed to the day Dipu settled down with a job. Then she figured she’d stay on till he got married. Dipu had crossed all the milestones, including becoming a father himself, but she was still—