Love and UFOs

Selected Shorts by Symphony Space

Sep 17, 202600:58:17Arts

Meg Wolitzer presents two stories that combine different sorts of unknowables: unidentified—or hard to identify—flying objects, and romantic love. In “The Duck,” by Ben Loory, a heartsick mallard has chosen a really unat...

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