the room

Considered by many to be the best short story writer out there, William Trevor is featured (again) in this week's New Yorker.

“Idleness is upsetting,” she had said while they danced, and had asked her future lover if he had ever heard of Sharon Ritchie. People often thought they hadn’t and then remembered. He shook his head and the name was still unfamiliar to him when she told him why he might have heard of it. “Sharon Ritchie was murdered,” she’d said, and wouldn’t have without the few drinks. “My husband was accused.”