Fiction • Feb 21, 2024 • 13 min read

Referential

Referential tells the story of a woman troubled with difficult relationships: she is the mother of a deranged teenage son whom she has committed to a facility, and she has been seeing her lover, Pete, shortly after having been widowed and after her son was born. For years, which cover a huge chunk of her son’s life, these two relationships have become so necessarily intertwined, she felt that the three of them had grown old together. Pete has been around to fill the shoes of her son’s real father.