A Conversations Story "All the world's a stage." It's been said so often it's a cliche. But for one actor, his life, on-stage and off, had become eerily similar to a Shakespearean drama of the most melodramatic kind. [Exit stage left to the story...]
It is Valentine's Day and Ken is on time. He has booked a romantic table for two at Lydia's favourite restaurant. Not only is it their 10th wedding anniversary, but 15 years since their very first date at this very table. He sets a bottle gift bag between her knife and fork, containing a tin can (10th means tin or aluminium bepending on your side of the pond) and leans a large white card envelope against it. He gets a text, she's running late. She's been running late for quite a while now…