A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection Virginia, a copywriter at an ad agency, looks around her office one day and realizes that everyone-well, nearly everyone-is pregnant. Can she be happy for them? "Babies, " included in the prestigious O. Henry anthology series in 1992, is a sharply funny and perfectly observed story of pregnancy, city living, the semantic contradiction of "creative directors, " and finding one's place in the world.
A selection from Ann Packer's luminous first collection Mendocino and Other Stories. An eBook short.
A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Selection Virginia, a copywriter at an ad agency, looks around her office one day and realizes that everyone-well, nearly everyone-is pregnant. Can she be happy for them? "Babies, " included in the prestigious O. Henry anthology series in 1992, is a sharply funny and perfectly observed story of pregnancy, city living, the semantic contradiction of "creative directors, " and finding one's place in the world.
A selection from Ann Packer's luminous first collection Mendocino and Other Stories. An eBook short.