A Thousand Tiny Cracks
Awarded the Gold Standard of Literary Excellence from the Princeton Literary ReviewThere were a thousand tiny cracks in her protective coating, but it only took the right one for the entire shell to fall away...
Stella Maddox is approaching forty. After sacrificing her career and moving to a small town to become a stay at home mom, her marriage and life disintegrate. Birthdays don’t bother her, but whining children, superficial friends, and grey hairs do. She misses the independence and respect from her career where she could intellectually relate to equals. She compromises her spirit over and over, and finds herself slipping through the cracks as her family’s lives take priority over her own.
When Tad, her neighbor’s son, returns home after college, he and Stella strike up a friendship. She desires his company, but faces the possibility of destabilizing her marriage and family for an emotional outlet to ease her loneliness. As the bond with her husband falters, Stella must decide the line where a connection becomes an affair, what actions she can live with, how much of her life belongs to her family, and which pieces inside her she can still claim for herself.
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© Stella Maddox, 2012
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