The Bridge (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Pamela Painter
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1980's
- Setting: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: An unnamed woman, An unnamed woman
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Children, 1980’s, Flowers, Women, Rivers or waterways, Infants, Bridges, Belief or doubt
- Locales: Cambridge, MA
The Story
As a woman on her way home with a bag of groceries crosses a bridge, she sees a younger woman ahead of her cradling a bundle. The bundle might contain flowers or a baby; the first woman cannot tell which. She thinks that if she catches up with the woman and finds that it is a baby that she is carrying, she might smile at the baby, admire its hair or nose, and ask how old it is. Or she might say, “What lovely flowers,” although she believes that this remark will not lead to much conversation.
As the first woman thinks about all this, the young woman stops...
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