Playing With Fire : Should I Stay or Should He Go!

by Joy Williams

Should I go out with him while my Husband is away on a business trip?..I do know him from back in the day, one date to catch up wouldn't hurt or will it?...We are just friends. To think things would not get any worse, soon as Shandra found out her Husband really didn't go on a business trip all Hell will break loose!!

27 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 4, 2024

About the author

Williams is the author of four novels. Her first, State of Grace (1973), was nominated for a National Book Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Quick and the Dead (2000), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her first collection of short stories was Taking Care, published in 1982. A second collection, Escapes, followed in 1990. A 2001 essay collection, Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Honored Guest, a collection of short stories, was published in 2004. A 30th anniversary reprint of The Changeling was issued in 2008 with an introduction by the American novelist Rick Moody.

Her stories and essays are frequently anthologized, and she has received many awards and honors, including the Harold and Mildred Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Rea Award for the Short Story.