[ 1 2 3 ]	We could have bought a house, and could have had two kids. I could have taught our daughter how to cool and she could have coached our son’s soccer team. We could have taken a cruise to celebrate our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. We could have danced in the ballroom, wondering where all the years had gone. We could have lived happily ever after. But I didn’t go over there. I didn’t have the guts. Instead I paid my bar tab and never saw her again, still thinking how it could have gone. “What Could Have Been” was published in the “Story Week Reader” (2005)