Return to M&M World



Kate Walbert’s 2012 New Yorker short story is set on a buzzing early spring day in Times Square, evoking the unique sense of renewal and energy palpable in New York when the city finally begins to thaw out from a long winter. While dutifully fulfilling her youngest daughter’s wish of visiting the hectic M&M World, Ginny’s day turns tense as she struggles to keep track of her kids and revisits memories of her estranged husband.


The Babes Return



Flora and Terry were both born out of wedlock and have been sent to live far from their families to hide the shame. Flora reveals to Terry that his auntie is really his mother and crushes his dream of someday living with her and the English gentlemen that takes them out on a jaunt to the beach.