‘Sounds like a mast year . . . it’s a thing that happens to trees. But sometimes it happens to people too.’
Jane stuffed as many of her belongings into her purse as she could. She’d just been called to her boss’s office and she knew what that meant. Nothing good ever came from a visit to the boss’s office. If she was about to be fired, she wanted her things with her.
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
