Day Care by Nora Lange

In 'Heart Beats', Carol and David arrive late to a Boston dinner party for a night of 'messy socialising' with other couples, including a former cult-leader turned financial-advisor and a woman who learned of a 'kinky sort of game' while riding public transit, details that she will reveal after the peach crumble. In 'Island of Phaetons', an expatriate living in Istanbul is called away from her daily life with 'the husband' and 'the friend who wanted more than friendship' to visit her mother, who notoriously makes bad decisions, and who has just arrived in Greece 'with news' for her daughter, a tantalising invitation that has her daughter immediately on a plane. In 'Dog Star', two figurines live out their dreams before succumbing to the truth that they have been assembled inside of a snow globe and will never go anywhere.