"in the fox's house"

“She’d followed the same pattern all her life, she realized now. Never taking steps to fix what was wrong, sure that someone would come along to help. She was still doing it…”

Lisa Goldstein’s story “In The Fox’s House” in Asimov’s September/October issue has Camille about to be forced to vacate her ex-husband’s house, a house on the edge of a forest when two foxes show up one night...

an unexpected response

Hallmark… “The Santa Summit”…. It’s not every day that someone responds to a declaration of love by quoting Arwen telling Aragorn that she’d rather spend one life with him than living alone through all the ages.