There's another one about a man whose two ex-wives still live with him and his current wife. Another woman attempts to break into the group and is rebuffed. She is a bad poet writing formalist verse and the three wives mock her poetry. The man rebuffs the new woman and then she writes a poem that's in free verse and rather surrealist.
A young black man steals a young white woman's purse. Later, they meet through mutual friends and develop a relationship. He sees her as a ticket to improve his life.
A woman and her estranged husband have to endure a time-share pitch in order to get a prize. They are working class and the prize is a cheap computer, not the Cadillac they wanted.
A man reflects back on a woman he met when he was 19 and she was 13. He foolishly promised to marry her when she was older. They drift apart and he marries someone else, and she puts a curse on the marriage, making it fall apart. There are many other things that happen over the years, and finally, when he does want her, she is going to go to a convent. The story ends with the idea that meaning of a story is not in its end, but in its middle.
One, "The Cold War," I don't really understand. Some people are in Ireland and have a random conversation.
One about two women, they were liberals together in the 60s, working on RFK's campaign. One, now on welfare, visits the other in Boston after many years, and asks her now wealthier friend for $1000 for medical care for her son. She says no, and doesn't even ask what child's medical condition is. She thinks to herself that the poor deserve to be poor.
A secretary is asked to research a mistakenly changed grade. She defines herself as an "office slave" and has some understanding of Marxism. She is eager to please the professor and ends up finding a sordid tale of sexual harassment.
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