Coffee and a Conversation
As Told Over Brunch is a home for intelligent discourse from the twenty-something perspective - so the stuff you gossip about over mimosas on Sunday morning or over takeout on your friend's couch when happy hour ends too early. We love chatting about our lives, whether it be the relationships we’re building (or destroying), lessons we've learned at work, struggles at school, growing pains we've felt, or even the food we’re talking over.
I've been taking a short story fiction writing class for the past eight or so weeks. On the very first night, the woman sitting next to me was explaining how she was late to class. Her work was having a happy hour, but she had class. She decided to cut it down the middle (leave early from the happy hour and come late to class) because she was contemplating: