Glamorous Notions

by Megan Chance

Not just Walter’s looks, but also his melodramatic delivery belonged to another time. It was all wrong for this play. The crowd laughed, but his lines weren’t funny.

It wasn’t that she was in love with Julia so much as that she wanted to be Julia.

But you know, they all think soldiers are blind followers of the government.”

Poets, artists, blathering on about changing the world but smoking enough marijuana to make them too stupid to move.

“I’m beginning to wonder if success is worth having if it means this much compromise.

“Being a woman means you have a perspective no man has. It makes you powerful, Lena. It makes you ‘more than,’ not ‘less than.’”