Steven Millhauser

Now all he can do is lie there thinking about things, high school, grade school, the boy in the room in Stratford, listening for the voice in the night. …

Early one morning, a week or so later, I stepped over to the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, as I did every morning before leaving for work...

The narrator receives a letter from his friend Albert, whom he hasn't heard from in nine years, saying that Albert has"taken a wife," and inviting him …