‘Anticipatory Grief’ is a Story by Jincy Willett Which I am Reading
Summer’s almost gone now, summer proper anyway, and we all knew it. Weeks of bad weather had left everyone full of helpless and dumb slow sadness. Waking up to the same gray that would accompany all the day’s activities, like making eye contact with that horrible party guest we’re all equally responsible for entertaining.
I remember a week end not long ago when there was nothing to do. For a group of adults to have nothing to do is for all esteem for ourselves and one another to break down in
Falling
Just finished an astonishingly excellent Jincy Willett short story entitled ‘Melinda Falling’. It’s told from the perspective of a highly successful 40-something man who becomes utterly enamored of a younger woman whose chief trait which attracts him is her grace when falling; stumbling; tripping; etc. He first catches sight of her cartwheeling down some stairs at a party. She is otherwise unremarkable. He describes her as dull, stoic, saturnine, plump, and disinterested. Marrying him practically by mistake and staying in the marriage through inertia. Despite all of her superficial and
