Melomiri

The Iris Deception

Language: en

A stranger started appearing in my social media logs, the account where I posted about my marriage. For a month, she kept visiting. Finally, I messaged her: [Who are you?] After a long silence, she posted three updates. The first text read: [First saw you a month ago. You were buying irises for your wife after work, saying they were her favorite. Mine too.] My husband had been bringing me irises daily for a month, claiming he bought them near his office. The second post showed two hands holding each other. The man’s hand had a hexagram tattoo—identical to the one on my husband’s hand. The…

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