eBook, 35 pages
Published May 1, 2024 by Amazon Original Stories.
Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, and delicious retribution by Margaret Atwood, the #1 bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Myrna, Leonie, and Chrissy meet every Thursday to sample fine cheeses, to reminisce about their former lives as professors, and lately, to muse about murder. Decades ago, a vicious cabal of male poets contrived—quite publicly and successfully—to undermine the writing career, confidence, and health of their dear friend Fern. Now, after Fern has taken a turn for the worse, her three old friends decide that it’s finally time to strike back—in secret, of course, since Fern is far too gentle to approve of a vendetta. All they need is a plan with suitably Shakespearean drama. But as sweet and satisfying as revenge can be, it’s not always so cut and dried.
Delightful but odd
Very well paced, but the ending felt a bit... anticlimactic. In a funny, plot twisty way, but it still left me feeling slightly unsettled.
Too silly by half...and I hate stories with old lady characters that seem passé and doddering. This group of literary types is trying to get back at 9 guys who once treated the published author among the women badly. Their strategy is lame and not worthy of Atwood.
