Short Story Wednesday, "How to Make Love to A Physicist"

 

I put this aside some time ago and just ran across it yesterday. I think I have only read half of the stories. This one is about a couple that meet at a STEAM conference. She is in the arts and only there to oversee. He is a physicist and this story documents the relationship that follows. She does everything she can to put him off but he hangs in there. I am not sure all men would allow this latitude but lucky for her. Deesha Philyaw won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for her debut short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.