[ WP ] Write a short story without the letter A

You never think the story will be yours. It is forever some other person's story, some other person's poor life filled with loss, filled with remorse. Some other couple who is sick, bored, tired, furious. Some other bout of bickering, some other night, some other topic. Then, suddenly, it's you. It's your life. It's your spouse, it's your love, it's your home. The gift you received for your 6th recurrence, the gift he procured for the third, wielded with force, fury. No more love. No more quiet. Nothing but quiet. 
 
 She's bleeding on the floor, still. 
 
 He's groping in the night, his eyes gouged out. Never before did this occur. How did it this time? Why? He wo n't ever know, he surmises. Strike for strike, they'd dueled, but who could determine the winner? Her no more, him forever blind, left to die. How would he survive now? Surely he kept living, but for no more purpose it seemed. They were once in love, but no more. How they destroyed the other. Is their story now over, or just begun?
