"Eavesdropping" by Eloise Currie

 –I had to continue this risky addiction to their conversations.

Ignorance would have been more intolerable than knowing.

Eloise Currie lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has kept a journal for thirty years and uses it as source material for short stories and nonfiction. She lived in Bath, North Carolina, for several years where she was a member of the Pamlico Writers Group and Riverwalk Writers Group. She is currently a member of the River Writers Group. She enjoys editing and has edited two books as well as short pieces.