The Hidden Wife
The Hidden Wife
Martha's husband is a big arrogant surgeon. Next door to them lives a lawyer whose specialty is suing doctors. His neighbors, mostly doctors and their families, don't speak to him. The lawyer is shy, and tiny for a man. Martha's wild about the way he scuffs along, walking six enormous shaggy dogs every morning. What a spunky little guy, trailing a big wooden pooper scooper from one hand and with the other somehow controlling that chaotic herd. . . .
The Unbearably Extended Family
Millicent's Ma came in from her hill in the country where she couldn't se to get off in a car on an icy day, though she wouldn't admit it. And think of the others if she couldn't think of herself, think of the others mowed down by that crazy old lady in wild hair careering down the side of that glass hill she kept herself on like a princess . It was some kind of virtue test to get to, for gods sake, says Millicent. . . .