Some Luck

by Jane Smiley

There were lots of ways to fit into a place like Iowa State College, and one of them was not to fit in at all.

The plays he had liked were the one called Measure for Measure, and another one called Macbeth. They were easy to follow, and what happened in them was kind of like what happened in junior high school.

So many things that took place during the day drew them apart, and then there were these nights in this room, this very bed, warm and almost wordless, that had kept them together.