She aced cricket, topped the class in Mechanical Engineering, and moved on to become CEO of a company. Our friends teasingly refer to me as Prince Philip, the one who walks a step behind his wife. I’m happy to be her support, the ‘man behind her success’.
News channels speak of the largest corruption scandal in the country, and it is alleged that she is at the helm of it. It cracks me up to think that the woman who slept besides me was changing, in ways not known to me.
How I wish she’d never smashed this glass door….
(100 words)
Reena Saxena 
I read your blog for first time. That’s great.
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Thank you so much!
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I like your use of glass in so many ways. The figurative glass ceiling/door that she broke through, the word “cracked,”, the transparency with which her misdeeds are now revealed, even “etched” in your comment. I love the Prince Phillip comment too. He will suffer public humiliation , too, even if his hands arent dirty.
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Thanks for being so observant and involved!
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People change and power corrupts but does the person have to have criminality in them of some sort to begin with? I like to think I’d be honest but so far I’ve not been tested.
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Maybe it is about being drawn into a network… but it’s only hypothetical thinking.
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Do we ever truly know other people? A very original take on the prompt.
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Thank you so much!
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Nicely written. So sad for him.
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Thank you, Brenda!
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We don’t always really know the person sleeping next to us I know from personal experience!
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We know the history of people, never what they are at this moment.
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I didn’t get the glass ceiling-glass door comparison at first. Glad I read others’ comments. Yes, great story where “male man” takes the place usually given to women. But why accuse him of being the bad evil inspiration of what she does? I particularly like the phrase “It cracks me up to think that the woman who slept besides me was changing, in ways not known to me.” Many thanks for this take.
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The glass door comes up, because frauds and corruption have been attributed to guys for a long time. Here, a woman does it.
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Will he stand by her. Or is it one strike and he is off
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Continue the story further 😀
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Good take on this prompt. The glass door/glass ceiling comparison was good.
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Thanks so much!
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Be careful what you wish for. Nicely done.
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Thanks!
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I am left wondering if he was the instigator of the financial disaster?
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In the real-life high profile cases that I hear, a male partner is either the driver or implementer of nefarious plans. So you are close to it …. though I’ve not etched this character as negative.
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Great.
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Thanks so much!
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Glass ceilings and glass doors! People who live in glass houses should undress in the dark
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True!
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