Husband by Sara Cappell Thomason

I want a house, a wife, a steak dinner and all my bills paid on time. I want to settle down in a house and get paid. Dinner from my wife served on time. I want breakfast—steak and eggs made by you! Yes, you! Wide eyed and pretty, come settle down in my lap. You want the bills paid and a house, and I want to settle down in steak made by you. My fork is ready!  

Dinner on time and my wife in my lap. This is my house.

Steak dinners and breakfasts all by you. My lucky wife all settled down in a pretty little house.  I mean BIG. I want a big house, a steak dinner, and all my bills paid on time. I want to settle down with my fork in my house and get paid. 

I want my wife served up for breakfast. Bring me my wife in an iron pan. You? Yes, you! Wide eyed and pretty, come settle down on my plate.

Breakfast on time and my wife in my gut. This is my house.

Sara Capppell Thomason holds an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work was included in the 2024 Wigleaf Top 50, and she was the winner of the 2022 New Flash Fiction Review Prize. She was awarded second place in the Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest. Her work has previously appeared in Electric Literature, Tin House, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Witness, SmokeLong Quarterly, and The Citron Review, among others. Currently, she lives on Isle of Palms, SC where she’s working on a novel. She can be found at www.saracappellthomason.com