Patrick Trotti

Dry

Franklin’s drinking never added up and now neither did his sobriety. They said at his first meeting that one drink was too many and a thousand was never enough. They said anyone worth their weight would do a ninety in ninety. You see he’d been to a few meetings a town over from his. He told his wife, Liz, that he was going every day this time around. The words ninety meetings in ninety days slipped off his tongue without a second thought. He knew her type after all. She was the more conscientious of the two and would undoubtedly throw herself into researching the whole sobriety lifestyle in the hopes of being super helpful.