story: Is Laughter Contagious?
author: Joyce Carol Oates
year: 1992
where: kitchen table, fingers stained red from Spanish cherries
note: meeting JCO is three weeks!
a line: “Nor have we streets, in the old sense of that word– we have “lanes,” we have “drives,” we have “passes,” “circles,” “courts,” even “ways,” but we do not have “streets.””