The Lost Wife

Author: Alyson Richman

There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers. ‘Do you remember me now?’ he asked, trembling. She looked at him again, as if giving weight and bone to a ghost. ‘Lenka, it’s me,’ he said. ‘Josef. Your husband.’ During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, falls in love with Josef. They marry – but soon, lik….Read More

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