Collins toys with human beings as shadows, who fade in and out of one another’s lives, and she carefully depicts how abandonment and attachment can be two sides of the same experience. The last line is this: “Leave her in the shadow while she looks for the feelings that lit up the room.” This three-page section, titled “Exteriors,” can hardly be considered a story it is more like a voyeuristic passage through which the reader can oscillate between being emotionally invested in and distant from matters of love. An unnamed director is giving instructions to someone - a stagehand? a cinematographer? - on how to light a room in which two lovers are suffering the demise of their relationship. Kathleen Collins’s short story collection, “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?” opens with a monologue. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO INTERRACIAL LOVE? Stories By Kathleen Collins 175 pp.
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