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.
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Some men might find it a challenge, or correctly (or not so) suspect she might be persuaded...goes the other way, too, though I don't know what the Success Rate is for any such couple in any combination...Arts and Sciences romance has figured into my reading (and life to some extent), so thanks for the pointer!
The story online: https://www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/how-to-make-love-to-a-physicist-by-deesha-philyaw
I think I mentioned the Tod Goldberg edited EIGHT VERY BAD NIGHTS last week, his "Hanukkah Noir" collection, of which the best story, not surprisingly, was by his brother, Lee Goldberg's "If I Were a Rich Man."
Currently reading collections by Walter Tevis (THE KING IS DEAD, so far mostly pool/hustler stories) and Patrick Ryan. Ryan's "The Dream Life of Astronauts" is the very good title story to his collection. In Cape Canaveral (where all the stories are set), 16 year old Frankie lives with his mother, sister and brother. He announced he was gay at 13. Frankie goes to a talk at the local library by former astronaut (turned real estate agent) Clark Evans - he was a member of NASA, though he never got into space - and thinks the middle aged man may be interested in him sexually, especially when he invites him to dinner. But things don't quite turn out as expected. Good story.
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