Jan Ellison, author of the novel A Small Indiscretion (Random House, 2015), won an O. Henry Prize for her first published short story, and her second was short-listed for Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize. She holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from San Francisco State University, and her story “Second First Night” won Second Place in Narrative’s Spring 2011 Story Contest. Ellison lives with her husband and children in Portola Valley, California.

Doing His Laundry for the First Time

An iStory

by Jan Ellison

The chores that in her marriage made her limbs ache have become a quiet pleasure. The new man, with sole custody of his children three days a week now, feels differently; he confessed to her that very morning that he’s begun to send the laundry out.

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