Hello, over here, behind the drapes with my feet sticking out at the bottom. It's me, Meg Walitzer.

Coming up on selected shorts, author Elizabeth Stroud and others

tantalize us with stories about things kept out of sight.

Now you can't go away. You're listening to selected shorts where our

greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time.

That happy photo of you, ice skating with your your ex the peloton gathering dust in the corner of your bedroom

the remaining half of that 60% cocoa bar of dark chocolate

whatever it is that's bugging you sometimes the best and easiest way to deal with

it is to put it out of sight. Go on, stow it, I'll wait and I won't even hum the jeopardy theme.

That's it. Stuff that bothersome thing in a drawer, a closet, or some little alcove within yourself that you don't often visit.

Feels better, doesn't it?

You won't think about that anymore.

Not your ex's new partner who is never ever photographed doing awkward physical activity of any kind.

Not the $1,500 exercise bike you rode five times, and even then only during one of Cody's easiest

rides and definitely not that chocolate which you know you could just eat one more

square of because the bar is not that big and anyway dark chocolate

is an antioxidant plus you did think about riding the peloton this morning

so our stories today on selected shorts are about people who put things out of sight and try

to put them out of mind. A pair of friends quietly sidestepped feelings that might complicate

their relationship. A teacher tries to help a

parents see who her child really is. And Elizabeth Stroud brings us a beautiful and devastating

story of a woman grappling with whether to put her mother into a nursing home.

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