I Thought Love Meant Staying, Until She Taught Me Otherwise

In five years of marriage, Queenie Hawkins, who once claimed I was her whole world, betrayed me three times.

The first time, she was drugged and ended up sleeping with a “pure” college boy someone had gifted her. When she sobered up, eyes red with guilt, she told me she had to take responsibility for him.

The second time, she wanted to cheer that same boy up. So, right after I’d had a vasectomy, she made me sit submerged in a giant aquarium as a live exhibit for three full days and nights. When they finally pulled me out, my wounds had already started to rot.