A baby appears in a home and no one remembers being the
mother. A woman considers an invitation to adultery. A critic reviews an
atypically transgressive play. A man finds himself married to a former porn
star, a woman he has adored for years.
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A CONFUSION OF MOMS
Well, Betsy, about the only thing we’ve decided for sure,
though we really don’t know for sure,
but we’ve decided to agree that the
baby isn’t Mom’s, since Mom is way past that age anyhow. This made Mom, like,
gleeful. "I’m a grandma, I’m a grandma," she said over and over, though I can’t
say if she was glad she was a grandma or glad she wasn’t a mom again.
THE FULL CHORUS SINGS OF DOROTHY FITZGERALD’S MANY VIRTUES
He’s forgotten who I am. Other women may fall easily but I
cannot. Yes, he and I are older now. We each have traveled long enough to meet
each other again. He supposes, therefore, that I have changed, as though time
requires that we change.
THE ASTONISHING LAWRENCE LYRIK AGITATES THE SERVANTS OF THE
CENSOR
For daring to view Lyrik’s work, for daring to legitimize him, I and the rest of the
audience, as we entered the Hall, were pummeled with words and sometimes with
spit and always with hate.
THE CHICKEN BONE
When a reporter asks her — and even now they still do — why
she would have married someone like me,
she answers, simply enough, that she loves me. Reporters, of course, do not
believe in love, and so they continue to speculate publicly about her motives —
and about mine.
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