The Husband Stitch”

“When you think about it, stories have this way of running together like raindrops in a pond. Each is borne from the clouds separate, but once they come together, there is no way to tell them apart” (Machado 16). Some of the micro-stories in “The Husband Stitch” have an oblique, tangential, or significant relationship to the main story. Analyze their relationship to the central story.