Aaron

Knight to King 4. Checkmate. He smiled smugly, "I don't play. I win." In 27 moves, I’d lost eight grand in cash. It was only a year ago that I had the American dream. Getting fired woke me up. I turned to hustling chess. Today I lost big- too big. My husband would be mad. Never lost this much. This is it. I’ll be a chess divorcee, alone with a clock & bishop. God, that’s sad. I headed home to face the music.