collection of stories, essays and poetry. Several are award winners.
I did a terrible thing once. I lent money to a friend. The amount was not huge, nor was it insignificant; just enough to cause the word "friendship" to feel like a dress that didn't fit right no matter how much you took it in or let it out.
That admonition spoken by Polonius to his son, Laertes, to "Neither a borrower, nor a lender be..." must have dawned, too late, on an awful lot of other people as the most farsighted advice ever given to a human being.
Excerpt
All she had to do was mention the fact that the loan was on her mind. A simple remark to this effect...would have sounded like springtime birdsong to my ear.
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