On the table between them, a half-empty glass of wine filled the space.

“God!” Betty exclaimed, smiling. “I just can’t believe how long it’s been.”

It had been decades since Betty last saw the woman now sitting across from her at the small, circular table in the window of Black ...Read more]]> http://penandcape.com/whats-new/wilma-betty-episode-iv/feed/ 0 http://penandcape.com/whats-new/wilma-betty-episode-iii/ http://penandcape.com/whats-new/wilma-betty-episode-iii/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:36:59 +0000 jmott http://penandcape.com/?p=758 Wilma & Betty III: New Year’s Eve By Jason Mott

The night was early. The moon was still awakening from the dusk. But, already, all of them—Wilma and Betty and Fred and Barney—were so drunk on Jack Danielstone whiskey that none of them could remember who had suggested “wife swapping.”

The four of them lay sprawled across the new saber-toothed ...Read more]]> http://penandcape.com/whats-new/wilma-betty-episode-iii/feed/ 0 http://penandcape.com/whats-new/wilma-betty-episode-ii/ http://penandcape.com/whats-new/wilma-betty-episode-ii/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:17:10 +0000 jmott http://penandcape.com/?p=754 The Further Adventures of Wilma & Betty Episode II: A Beautiful Afternoon

Wilma had been unsettled for weeks.

“What’s been eating you?” Betty asked. The two of them sat in Wilma’s kitchen sipping coffee. In the backyard, Dino clawed the base of a wide, gray tree. Above him, in the branches, something moved. Dino yipped. Wilma and Betty watched through ...Read more]]> http://penandcape.com/whats-new/wilma-betty-episode-ii/feed/ 0