Just in the mood for a shorter piece, and one further back in time. Coming off A Clockwork Orange seems to call for a love story, something that focuses on depth of character instead of the the depths of society as its primary goal.
The snow scene on the cover of my 1970 edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton just called to me on this rainy, windy, limbs-bare-of-leaves day.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology