Matrimony on the rocks with a side of funny.

Quiet for God's sake. You're yelling like a prize fight manager.

Enraged at that, she had recourse to her eyes as weapons and looked steadily at him for a while with the

expression of one who was viewing a small and horrible animal such as a horn toad.

Coming up on selected shorts, humorous stories about marriages not made in heaven as a long married

couple fall out over Donald Duck and a spouse's bone jarring snores.

I'm Meg Walitzer and you have to hear this. And a talk with one of the authors,

The Sublime Louise Erdrich. You're listening to selected shorts where our greatest actors

transport us through the magic of fiction,

one short story at a time.

Marriage has taken on many forms in recent years,

but whatever the shape or context, it remains one of the most important

forms of bonding we have.

It makes two people into a family, and often one that includes a circle of friends and the preceding and perhaps succeeding generation.

More is at stake than just the two people who've linked together.

So what happens when that bond is tested?

On this show, we share two stories... So what happens when that bond is tested?

On this show, we share two stories in which marriages are in jeopardy, and they defy our expectations.

We often think of divorce as being either cataclysmic, the discovery of an affair,

or the slow acid of disenchantment. But these stories tip the balance in favor of the little things.

In one, a long established couple disagree

loudly in the other two different wives shape the life of one man.

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