Foundations
He was an upstanding member of society, a long, long time ago. He'd had a job, a wide, a purpose. He'd had plans and dreams, and, Gods, at one point, he had love.
The first crack in that facade appears in the form of a sneeze and a revelation. It's followed be a fissure filled with scotch and hours lost in a bar because it's anywhere but home. The last one, that fracture that shatters it all, comes in the form of a suitcase and an argument that neither of them are committed to winning, a fight that is just as fragile as their hearts, their home, the tail end of a failed marriage. Allen Francis Doyle loses his entire life in the span of 10 footsteps.