A Writer Writes — “The Roads Are Closing” by Patricia McArdle (Paraguay)
A Writer Writes THE ROADS ARE CLOSING By Patricia McArdle (Paraguay 1972-74) Winner of the Foreign Service Journal Summer Fiction Contest in 2009 • How did I let her burrow so far into me that twenty years later she still lingers just beyond the daylight, curling around my mind like tendrils of sweet cigar smoke, distracting me with the soft clink of ice cubes in her sweating glass of gin and tonic. The thing is, I never should have spoken to her the first time. She was not my type, not part of my plan. Oh yes, my plan. Finish my masters in International Relations, pass the Foreign Service exam, hustle my way to the top — marry the right girl, which I did, but it didn’t last. I married even better the second time — the daughter of a former ambassador, but that didn’t last either. I even . . .
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Patricia McCardle's book, "Farishta," has been reviewed here, but I want to add a report from the UN Women Gulf…