Glass Skin

A marriage cracks under the weight of neglect: Alex buries himself in work, Sophia is left alone in the space he used to fill. Neither one says it out loud, which is the point.

The story follows Sophia as the distance turns into something else. She starts looking for attention Alex stopped giving her, and other people notice before he does. It's a quiet unraveling told through chapters rather than dramatic reveals, with Alex mostly absent from his own relationship while it happens.

You move through the story a chapter at a time, watching Sophia's choices pile up rather than making many of your own. The pull is in the slow humiliation of it, the sense that everyone in the room can see what's happening except the one person it's happening to.