ALT Excerpt from Molia Dumbleton's story "Before All This": Sometimes he even came home from the docks with an odd topic to ask her or tell her about—as if the ocean itself gave him big ideas, big questions, big memories. She’d still be in her pajamas and he’d still be in his gear, and she’d make a pot of coffee and they’d split it, and they’d talk, and she’d get to see him still and settled, just for a little while.