The Conversation

by Linda S. Gunther

“Take me with you. I’ll die here without you.”

“You will live. Get healthy.”

“I really wanted to see Iceland.”  

“Not in winter you don’t. And your chemo every week.”

He kisses her forehead, her damp blonde bangs on his lips.

 “I’ll be living in a hut on a glacier.”

“Six weeks is forever. You’ll have medical there?”

“One doctor for the ten of us.”

He holds her close, let’s her go, and stares down at his feet.

His silence saddens her.

“How about a small hotel in Reykjavik?” he whispers.

She smiles.

“I’ll need to learn to spell that.”

Linda S. Gunther is the author of six romantic suspense novels: Ten Steps From The Hotel Inglaterra, Endangered Witness, Lost In The Wake, Finding Sandy Stonemeyer, Dream Beach. and most recently published in 2021, Death Is A Great Disguiser. Her short stories and essays have been published in several literary journals across the globe.