“She didn’t want their husbands, nor did the husbands want to leave their wives. She’d thought of the affairs as good things, small avalanches of intensity and passion in busy, routine lives. Finished in their time - and with no hard feelings afterward on either side. She had always been careful, fastidiously circumspect. She believed they’d left no victims.”
-- from “Show Jumping”
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In these sixteen collected stories, celebrated storyteller Mary W. Walters reveals the bizarre workings of seemingly normal minds. Walters enlivens the commonplace, finds joy in the intimate details of the surface, then takes her readers into the infinitely varied landscape of the mind with humour, clarity and purpose.
