August Kelly Summary

Steve asks Kelly how her doctor's appointment was and she knows, loosely translated, that means, Can we have sex? At her appointment when Dr. Mendlow had told her whenever she was ready she could start having intercourse, she had laughed almost uncontrollably, feeling she's never wanted to have sex less in her life and thinking of her shorts-clad, couch-bound husband. The couch. She'd come home from walking Oliver and Lemon one day to find the orange and brown plaid monstrosity squatting in the middle of her living room.

Kelly winced at the sour smell of mildew and eau de old people that wafted out of the cushions. It smelled as if someone had died on top of it and it looked close enough to the couch she'd had in her house growing up to be its evil twin. When she had...