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Watch Time Fly
Book by Furman, Laura
- GenresShort Stories
Hardcover
Published September 6, 1983
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About the author
Laura Furman
67 books59 followersLaura J. Furman (born 1945) is an American author best known for her role as series editor for the O. Henry Awards prize story collection. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Mirabella, Ploughshares, Southwest Review.
She has written three collections of stories (The Glass House, Watch Time Fly, and Drinking with the Cook), two novels (The Shadow Line and Tuxedo Park), and a memoir (Ordinary Paradise).
She founded American Short Fiction, which was a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. She is currently Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing. Most recently, she has announced that she has submitted a collection of short stories to her agent, and the subsequent collection will be her first new work to follow the release of 2001's Drinking with the Cook.
She has written three collections of stories (The Glass House, Watch Time Fly, and Drinking with the Cook), two novels (The Shadow Line and Tuxedo Park), and a memoir (Ordinary Paradise).
She founded American Short Fiction, which was a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. She is currently Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing. Most recently, she has announced that she has submitted a collection of short stories to her agent, and the subsequent collection will be her first new work to follow the release of 2001's Drinking with the Cook.
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April 12, 2020
A collection of stories mostly providing a peek into relationships.
1. “Watch Time Fly” **** A woman’s ex-husband weirdly reconnects with her briefly, and the exchange helps her realize she made the right decision in leaving him.
2. “Listening to Married Friends” *** After spending a weekend with a crabby married couple, a woman decides the single life isn’t so bad after all.
3. “Buried Treasure” **** A man visits his ex after three years to dig up something he had buried on her land, but when he doesn’t find it the woman realizes that the life she has created for herself is the true treasure.
4. “Sweethearts” *** A comparison of relationships of two couples- edgy vs. comfortable- as seen through the way they interact with each other.
5. “Real Estate” *** A man thinks he wants to buy property in the country near his friend until he gets a wake-up call that it’s not an easy thing to do.
6. “The Kindness of Strangers” *** A man who is under the weather is taken in by a stranger for a few days until he feels better.
7. “Free and Clear” **** A man inherits his grandparents’ home and feels adrift without their company and advice.
8. “Arlene” *** Arlene isn’t well-known or much liked by the people in her building and she ends up killing herself, revealing that she suffered mental illness all along.
9. “Nothing Like It” *** A young woman spends an extended vacation in London with a shopkeeper she meets who is a bit standoffish and doesn’t invest in her as much as she hoped/wanted.
10. “For Scale” *** A woman visits her parents before she moves away.
1. “Watch Time Fly” **** A woman’s ex-husband weirdly reconnects with her briefly, and the exchange helps her realize she made the right decision in leaving him.
2. “Listening to Married Friends” *** After spending a weekend with a crabby married couple, a woman decides the single life isn’t so bad after all.
3. “Buried Treasure” **** A man visits his ex after three years to dig up something he had buried on her land, but when he doesn’t find it the woman realizes that the life she has created for herself is the true treasure.
4. “Sweethearts” *** A comparison of relationships of two couples- edgy vs. comfortable- as seen through the way they interact with each other.
5. “Real Estate” *** A man thinks he wants to buy property in the country near his friend until he gets a wake-up call that it’s not an easy thing to do.
6. “The Kindness of Strangers” *** A man who is under the weather is taken in by a stranger for a few days until he feels better.
7. “Free and Clear” **** A man inherits his grandparents’ home and feels adrift without their company and advice.
8. “Arlene” *** Arlene isn’t well-known or much liked by the people in her building and she ends up killing herself, revealing that she suffered mental illness all along.
9. “Nothing Like It” *** A young woman spends an extended vacation in London with a shopkeeper she meets who is a bit standoffish and doesn’t invest in her as much as she hoped/wanted.
10. “For Scale” *** A woman visits her parents before she moves away.
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