A Man of His Social Position

In between polishing the furniture, mopping the kitchen floor and cleaning the five bathroom toilets, Inez Alvarez with a forged green card in her purse and a seven-year-old daughter in San Salvador walks Eleanor Diamond’s Cockerdoodle twice a day. She wears Mrs. Diamond’s Fitbit on her left wrist and doesn’t return to the apartment until she has walked 10,000 steps for the day. Mr. Diamond checks his wife’s Fitbit every night. He wants his wife to lose the pounds her pregnancy put on her hips and ass. A man of his social position needs a slim, beautiful wife.


Jeffrey Hantover is the author of two recent novels, The Forenoon Bride and The Three Deaths of Giovanni Fumiani. His work has previously appeared in The Centifictionist. Website: jhantover.com.