Evvie Drake Starts Over

by Linda Holmes

Quick, quick, quick, what does a neutral expression look like again?

her brain laboring furiously, like duck feet underwater,

There was a pop and a misty curl went up from the bottle.

Monica talked about her classes and the turmoil in her book club, which had been infiltrated by someone who was very unhappy that nobody ever read the books.

you can’t come in and inflict your own rules on everyone.