title: A Night at the Inn
author: Byrnes, Jenna
description: Coming Together's Hors d'Oeuvres are single story treats taken from the anthologies and as appetizers. Finger food, if you will, for the libido. Jenna Byrnes' "A Night at the Inn" comes from Coming Together: Under Fire which benefits the victims of the Southern California wildfires.
  Nelson Marker is on his first vacation since the death of his wife. When he meets Anita Jenkins at the Halstead Inn, he finds that life does indeed go on, but not exactly in the way he expected.  (5,665 words)