The Possibility of Happiness/ Douglas Kennedy
“Whereas I’m scared of the idea of entrusting my entire future to another person. Because, hell, aren’t they as fallible as I am? And just as scared?” I cut myself off. “Am I ranting here?” Jack threw back his shot of bourbon, and motioned the bartender for more drinks. “You are doing fine,” he […]
Strangers in the Night or Day/ Thomas Mann
Nothing is stranger, more delicate, than the relationship between people who know each other only by sight—who encounter and observe each other daily, even hourly, and yet are compelled by constraints of convention or their own temperament to keep up the pretense of being indifferent strangers, neither greeting nor speaking to each other. Between them […]
