Marie
"sticky" inspired the following...though it didn't make it through the final edit
Broken That was maybe the first time, right before Alma Jr. pulled on one jar and sent a couple dozen of them shattering down, so it wasn't until she was heading home that she got mad, that he hadn't kept his word and she was trying to do what she could for the family and he put her in that position at work. At least Monroe was nice about it, and she didn't have to call her sister on top of everything else. But it didn't feel fair, Ennis putting his job before hers, even though she guessed it was, him being her husband. So she backed down with hardly a word.
Then there was the time when she told him, there it was, the postcard, the first one, and she just told him, just handed him over, and didn't even know it. What if she hadn't? What if somehow she'd known? Or if, just by mistake, she dropped it, lost it in the clutter of everything else. Or if Jr. had pulled it off the table, thrown it away like she was playing a game, helping Mommy clean house. Then nothing, nothing would have broken.