Call

Several hours of phone calls ...
that's all I need
to undo
my life.

— Shira Nayman, short story "The House on Kronenstrasse"
(The Atlantic fiction issue 2005)

Lovelife

She was forced to consider
the startling fact
that the love of her life
might not actually be someone
with whom she could spend a lifetime.
-- Jodi Picoult, "The Tenth Circle"