Elizabeth Weld’s fiction has appeared in the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Blackbird, Arts & Letters, Shenendoah, and the Carolina Quarterly. She is a doctoral student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Two years after her mother’s death, Jane’s boyfriend asked her to marry him, and nine months later, they moved across the country to start their new life. Jane was twenty-nine, ready to step away from Phoenix after a hard few years. Ryan...