Two recipients of Bennington Foundation Leadership awards contemplate a fling on the accompanying retreat.

(from One Story, issue 54)

An entertaining story with a big, poetic, meaningless ending. Not that there should be a meaning. But sometimes there is, and this time there isn’t. I didn’t buy the characters as real people, but as funny little sketches, they served their purposes well. The guy who likes to quote poetry and suddenly, accidentally recites a line from “The Raven?” The woman who does the melodramatic thing at the end which if I say it will spoil it so I won’t? These are not actual people. But their situation seems real and that’s good enough.
You can read an interview with N.M. “Nicole” Kelby here, as is One Story‘s wont. Why I got another issue so soon after the last one I do not know, but you don’t see me complaining. No you don’t.