Five Husbands Appeared on My Birthday

Story & art by Unknown

Also known as On My Birthday, Five Husbands Appeared

Theodora Norton, my mother, lived her entire life in emotional suffering because of her husband. “I’ve prepared everything so you won’t have to live like me.” With her last breath, Theodora revealed that she had prepared not one, but several perfect men for my twenty-fourth birthday. I dismissed it as nothing more than the lingering […]