3. Minutiae

The morning Shana got married, Charles severed his ring finger with a hammer, so it couldn’t be re-attached. Two good thwacks, and then it was lying there, bloody and weird. Have you ever lost a finger? You look down and think, How was that ever a part of me in the first place? The bleeding wouldn’t stop, so he went to the ER. The nurse there said, Good thing you’re a lefty. He flexed his hands and shivered. He’d taken the wrong finger. Shana always complained he didn’t pay attention. He conceded the point, but missed her all the same.