How

I loved Lorrie Moore's How. It perfectly explained the thoughts and urges that go through everyone's (not just women's) minds while in a relationship that clearly does not have a happy ending. There are parts of this story that seem pure genius- the "narrator" being the woman's subconscious (in my own opinion), how there are subtle hints that the man is not 'sick' in medical terms but merely stressed over the possibility of his girl leaving him, the absence of time, leaving the story very vague on whether this takes place over a couple weeks, a couple months, a couple years....simply fantastic.