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I am currently reading Belle Boggs’s short story collection, Mattaponi Queen, and I admit that I’m enjoying it with fervor. Recently shortlisted for the 2010 Cork City - Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, the collection has such a unique voice and energy. Today’s Story of the Day, “Jonas,” was originally published in Five Chapters. Happy Monday, and enjoy:

“Before Melinda left — on the hour to the minute, she noticed — the therapist asked her in a delicate way if she had questions, of any kind, about the process. The procedures. Melinda shook her head vehemently. She did have questions, primarily about what would be expected in the bedroom, and about down there, but she was too shy to ask them. She could not help thinking, as she left, that if the therapist had been truly good and smart, as Jonas said, she would have known that and made her ask them anyway.”