Cellphone, I stared at the striped cat image on my phone. Take a deep breath, again, again, and again. Exactly a month and two weeks and four days 'my husband' did not come home. Imagine how annoyed I was, he didn't even text, let alone call. Phew! really, sucks.

This afternoon, the sky was cloudy and thick, it was raining very hard. I stood frozen in front of my office window, staring out. These eyes still hurt from crying last night.

On the way home, I drove very carefully, the road was slippery and muddy, hit by strong winds that hit the indiscriminate heavy rain. Almost home, I said to...