A TEMPORARY MATTER

This story is about a young couple , where wife is a proof-reader and the husband is still a grad student. They have a nice home and life was full of hope and dreams. However, their first child was born dead and a terrible pall has come over the relationship. While they had been close and loving, caring and thoughtful, they have drifted apart, not even eating their meals together. A notice comes from the power company that some electrical lines in their neighborhood must be repaired and for a number of nights the electricity will be cut off at 8 PM each evening, but this is just a “temporary matter.” They are forced to rearrange their evenings, and their evening meal will have to be by candlelight. Then each of them “reveals” something to the other each evening. This seemingly brings them close together again, and signs are that they are getting very close to coming back to the loving ways they had before. At the last night Shuba said her husband ,  that she find an apartment for herself, and he understood that she is going to leave him. After that Shukumar told her about their baby. And that serious moment was the end.