The Other Place

As a young adult, the narrator travelled a lot, going from job to job. During this time, her friends were all settled down with great families, while she was still wandering around single. She wondered whether she would always be alone and roaming or would she eventually settle down. At one time, she was living in an apartment in Vancouver and a similarly lonely friend named Tig came often to visit. He told her about when his three brothers almost killed him in a cruel joke by locking him in an icebox. They became close and spent a lot of time together. A few months later, she married Tig and lived the settled life she was always thinking about. She had often dreamed of being in an apartment similar to the one she had in Vancouver and of knowing that a child was locked away dying in one of the rooms. She wondered if the place in her dream represented the past or was a place in her future.