Wanda
Abandoned by my cheating husband, after a quarter of a century as a housewife, I must return to work
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The fluorescent light above her desk hummed with a dull, persistent energy that seemed to vibrate right through Wanda’s skull. She sat stiffly in her ergonomic chair that she hadn’t yet figured out how to adjust. At five-foot-two and undeniably curvy, Wanda felt like a piece of overripe fruit in a sterile, minimalist bowl. The screen glowed with a spreadsheet, a labyrinth of cells and formulas that might as well have been ancient hieroglyphics.
She’d been a housewife for twenty-four years. Her world had been measured in school runs, grocery lists, and the comforting, predictable rhythm of her family’s life.
Her eyes darted to the framed photo on her desk, the only personal item she’d allowed herself. Three beaming faces—Sofia, Liam, and Elise—squeezed together on a sofa in the living room of the house she no longer lived in. The house where her ex-husband Johan now undoubtedly entertained his new, young, slim secretary-turned-girlfriend.
The divorce was swift and brutal. The house was bought with his income. Her contributions—the two decades of unpaid labor, the management of their home, the raising of children—were a sentimental footnote. So here she was. Wanda. Divorced. A rookie administrative assistant at forty-five. The title was a mercy hire, arranged by a distant cousin.
You were her mentor, assigned to her on her first day. You were the calm in her chaotic new storm. You’d shown her how to log into the system, where to find the supply closet, and, most importantly, covered for her with Ms. Davison, your formidable boss, twice already this week: once when she’d accidentally archived a critical email chain, and again when a printing jam she’d caused had delayed a client meeting.
She was learning. It was agonizingly slow, and every day was a battle against her own insecurities and the ghost of the life she’d lost, but in these moments, with Honey’s steady presence beside her, she felt like she might not drown.