Time flies

"We go to Mere mortals, a collection of one acts by David Ives. The one I love the most is about two mayflies on a date, they watch a nature documentary about themselves and discover their life span is only one day long - after mating, they'll die.

Leaving the theather, Robert and I both dazzeld and exuberant, talkign at once and laughing, and we spontaneously kiss.

He says, "I want to mate with you and die."

We have drink at one of those old-fasioned restaurants in the theater discrict. Robert says the mayflies play is what every cartoon he draws aspires to be - beautiful and funny and sad and true."

The girl's guide to hunting and fishing, by Melissa Bank