Titles
“Zombies with Money” describes a couple
buried in side-by-side coffins with holes drilled “so
that the husband’s right hand rested on his wife’s
left shoulder.” The arrangement perhaps “contributed
to their simultaneously waking up one night from a shared
dream of the nearly hidden Spanish trunk.”
—James T. Anderson, ’57
“Pregret” gives a name to the nanosecond
of hesitation before an ill-advised kiss—the instant
in which “passion and conscience collide.”
—Kim Bromley, MA ’84
Grabbers
“Since the beginning your smile has been the end
of me.”
—“The Perfect Day” by Andrew Hinderaker,
’01, MA ’02
“Margaret Smithon was carrying out the usual
household tasks—those that she didn’t delegate
to Zelma, anyhow—when she had an unprovoked intimation
to open her front door.”
—“The Dog and the Rabbit” by Avital
Binshtock, MA ’04
“My first Sunday as an altar boy, I was confronted
with a major dilemma. Four dead flies were floating
in the blood of Christ.”
—“Altar Boy” by Christopher Kemper,
’91
Quick Characterizations
“Write Up: 40th Reunion Class Book . . .
“I live on an oak-covered hillside overlooking
the Napa Valley with Tom, my husband of 21 years, in
a house we designed and built with our own hands. Recently
our lives have been enriched by the arrival of Tom’s
daughter and her 6-month-old.”
—“The Show Time Crew” by Ann Newton
Holmes, ’62
“We called our sled Lei Kung. The god of thunder
had six boys to drive his chariot, but we figured two
was enough.”
—“Revolution” by Li Miao Lovett, ’90
“Then he started talking about all that stuff
that makes him unpopular at dinner parties.”
—“My Investigation” by Hazim Ansari,
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