I like the idea that you can think someone’s perfect until you meet someone that really is perfect – and then they pale into insignificance…

Choosing to show how this ‘blissful’ encounter is really nothing up against meeting your wife is a clever way to let us know just how much the character’s wife must mean to them…!

Good work – though I’m not sure about the ellipses in the last paragraph, they come across a little messily. Still, bravo! MH :)

Thanks, MH! I got rid of the ellipses.

Oh! I took it a completely different way. I thought the protagonist was remembering this great time with the ‘one that got away’ when he convinces himself that his wife is the one that he really wants. It is the sort of mental gymnastics that we all go through to make life bearable. It looks like I am wrong. I liked it a lot and I think it is a good entry for the challenge.

Not neccessarily wrong RQ, it’s just a different take – and a clever one at that…

Extra kudos to Mr K for a story open to interpretation! MH :)

It’s certainly open to interpretation! You may not be too far off in your assessment, though, Mr. Quick. I don’t really remember what I was trying to go for, as I wrote this at about 2 in the morning, so no matter how you interpret it, you’re right!