Lovers at the Museum: A Short Story
Despite the brevity of this work, it is quite a short story, I walked away with multiple connections that felt significant. And a desire to explore other works by this author. This is always a welcome outcome. When they were arrested, the boy and the girl claimed that they had spent the night inside, but the indignant guards swore that such a thing was impossible because they patrolled the premises tirelessly. Furthermore, they security camera picked up everything down to a person's inner most secret thoughts. Being locked in a museum - yep- very romantic - though in my experience - no wedding dress nor naked "boy"- much more PG rated than the night this couple enjoyed. Of course, we didn't spend the entire night locked in the museum. Yeah, but stll, no wedding gown. He didn't get modern art; he preferred bucolic landscapes with cows. LOL. When I took my first teaching job, at Urbana University, the psychologist I replaced was "interesting"....
