I won't bother quoting favorite lines, as they've been covered above, but I'll say this: What I love most about this story is the sense that something is going on here under the surface, something that the trio has to have, has to work out, together. The sense that whatever lives they live the rest of the month, on the third Tuesday of every month, in their furtive assignations, only then they can be their truest selves.
Others have commented on the undertone of dysfunction here, and I agree with that, but I also feel like that dysfunction exists outside the the connection of the three of them, as if it's caused by the fact that they belong together, but, except for these monthly events, they aren't and can't be.
I won't bother quoting favorite lines, as they've been covered above, but I'll say this: What I love most about this story is the sense that something is going on here under the surface, something that the trio has to have, has to work out, together. The sense that whatever lives they live the rest of the month, on the third Tuesday of every month, in their furtive assignations, only then they can be their truest selves.
Others have commented on the undertone of dysfunction here, and I agree with that, but I also feel like that dysfunction exists outside the the connection of the three of them, as if it's caused by the fact that they belong together, but, except for these monthly events, they aren't and can't be.