Review: When the romance wilts
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2012
Top Mark, our narrator, calls his lover Marx, partly as a joke, partly to differentiate them, something that doesn't always work. The name conjured up a quote, which grew more and more ironic as the story progressed. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."The troubles between them unfold in small steps, each little detail piling on as Mark describes, with a certain naiveté, the recent goings on. Unsettling phone calls are almost the least of it, though providing a certain note of both humor and WTF.Both Mark and Marx will provoke a lot of strong feelings. The ending will make you think and ache; there is no happily ever anything here, but it's beautifully drawn misery.