"Or Else"

"Or Else"
by Antonya Nelson

Rating: 7.9


Short story about a thirty-nine-year-old man taking his girlfriend to a house in Telluride for the weekend. “My family owns a house in Telluride,” was his favorite, most useful line. Danielle was perhaps different from the other women he’d brought here.

“Danielle asked David now, "Do you wish you were in there instead of out here?"
"No," he said. And then he reviewed his response. It was a lie—or else it wasn't. ♦