Collected Stories

A respected short story writer and teacher in her mid-fifties, Ruth Steiner has carved out a comfortable life for herself in the Greenwich Village apartment she has occupied for decades. Lisa Morrison is a talented 26 year old graduate student and aspiring writer, a child of suburban privilege. Lisa arrives at Ruth’s apartment for her first tutorial as a gawky, gushing hero worshiper. When Ruth quips, “I had someone darker in mind,” she doesn’t realize the foreshadowing in her own life story, but the audience should be put on alert.