
After two years hunched over her laptop at home, Deanna Spenser is finally back in the office, albeit only for three days a week, and predictably, she hates it. Driven by a deep desire for change, a yearning to not go back to the way things were before coronavirus, she finds herself consumed by memories of adolescence, of a friend lost to the past.
Abruptly, she is offered a chance to reconnect with her friend. Yet as the past opens up before her, she finds herself wondering if perhaps there are things that should not be revisited after all.

Songs of Love and Hate By Courtney Milnestein In the dull grey months after Christmas, yet before spring, she began to miss her. On the street, with the sun bright above her despite the clouds, she found that she had come to an abrupt halt, that she was just standing there, pushing the thin silver band of the ring on her finger with her thumb, wondering what had happened, how she got where she was, amidst the distant crowds, yearning for an early spring; how she had become an adult so sharply, so suddenly. She had taken to wearing a ring on her left hand to dissuade men from talking to her on public transport, to convince them that she was not available, that she would be more effort than they might be willing to put in, and, for the most part, the statement was true, she was in a relat
