"Free Radicals"

"Free Radicals"
by Alice Munro

Rating: 6.4



Short story about a widow visited by an intruder. Writer describes the widow, Nita, living alone in the weeks after the death of her husband, Rich, a college professor. He’d been eighty-one years old and in fine health.

“Was he hurt?”
“Killed. Instantly. Serves him right.”
There followed a kindly stern lecture. Leaving keys in the car. Woman living alone. These days you never know.
Never know. ♦