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Autumn 1989 • Vol. XI No. 4 • Fiction |

How Love Is Lived in Paradise

By Lee K. Abbott

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Lee K. Abbott was the author of Love is the Crooked Thing, Living After Midnight, Wet Places at Noon, and, most recently, All Things, All at Once: New & Selected Stories. In addition to KR, his fiction and articles appeared in Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, New York Times Book Review, and Southern Review. His work was included in Best American Short Stories and The O'Henry Awards.

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