I eat my lunch with a man I shared a glance with across the courtyard: the first interaction I’ve had in a long time.

I name our kids, Julian and Ava. I want an outdoor wedding. No. Indoor. Both? I check up on my husband across the courtyard.

He left.

Aside from choking people for sport, Brianne Robertson–the Jiu Jitsu competitor–enjoys writing short excerpts and poems in her spare time.