“Item one takes fifteen minutes. We’ve been meaning to get to it for nineteen years.”
From Chapter 36, “Ten Things to Do This Weekend,” of The Marriage Contract, 2027, which reads the law of marriage as the prenup every married couple already has.
A magnet holds a handwritten list to a refrigerator door. It's headed This weekend, with ten empty checkboxes. Only the first line is filled in and checked: check the forms. Two people with coffee mugs stand looking at it, the way people look at a gym membership.
