Same Old Story by Donal Mahoney
When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won't know why but it's the same old story another woman this one young and beautiful but deaf and mute as well a woman Martin likes because her body speaks a language of its own a woman who stays home unless Martin chooses to walk her along with his dog, Sparky, an old sheepdog his wife gave him as a pup.