“Housewife,” a very short story by Amy Hempel—
She would always sleep with her husband and with another man in the course of the same day, and then the rest of the day, for whatever was left to her of that day, she would exploit by incanting, “French film, French film.”
(From Micro Fiction, edited by Jerome Stern).
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