“It’s so hot and my A/C is broken,” I told the Tarot card reader. “Last winter, during that cold snap, my furnace froze. My car died before my job interview! My garden wedding is next week and with my bad luck? I can’t sleep, I’m terrified.”
She consulted her cards. “You’re doomed.”
“No! Is there something—”
“Cancel the wedding.”
“What? No…”
I left her place, tears blurring my vision.
The bus was arriving when my phone pinged. The message from my fiancé read, “It’s so damn hot, we must cancel the wedding.”
My jaw dropped. Good news—at last.
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Roxana Arama
is a Romanian-American writer and a member of Codex Writers’ Group. She
has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, her work has been
acknowledged in several literary contests and magazines, and she
maintains the website Rewriting History: How writers turn history into story, and story into history at www.roxanaarama.com. She lives in Seattle with her family. Follow her on Twitter at @RoxanaArama.
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