Stories as often oblique and dark palliators now reach their end. I seem, by random chance, to have left the best until last. An almost direct experience of the holiday of a seasoned husband and wife, Brad and Margaret., visiting New York from New Hampshire, innocents abroad, but their ideals of a city break gradually takes various turns of alarms, confusions and even the imposing city buildings are in entropy as well as the panic and meltdown of Margaret, conveyed by dense attritional paragraphing that effectively plunges the reader into her various emotions, towards an ‘elbow’ moment that helps bring matters to a frighteningly open-ended close. And this final story makes even my reviewing methods crazily credible….
“We’ve been playing anagrams.”
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My other reviews of Shirley Jackson: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/my-reviews-of-stories-by-shirley-jackson/
Shadows & Elbows 