... a paragraph.

We were driving from New York City up the Saw Mill Parkway toward the Taconic and listening to the Wanderer Symphony of Schubert on the radio. I begged you to slow down, but as slowly as you drove, we were still losing it in the static, long before it finished.

—Carole Maso, Ava, p. 7. A perfect short short story contained in this lovely, fragmentary novel.