Commute — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

She spends each day as two people: herself and Mr. Haworth's secretary. Home, work, home, work. Then, a man on the subway train confides in her that he lost his job months ago and kept it from his wife. And somehow, that seemingly random conversation will change everything she thought she knew about her commute, her life, herself.

“Rusch's short fiction is golden.”
-- Kansas City Star