Fiction

摘要

As the Santa Ana winds fan the flames of brush fires across Southern California, two stay-at-home parents and their working spouses play with fire of their own making. Lance is a former surfer and television weatherman-turned-doting father who wants a second baby, but Darlene, his striving wife, is more focused on future franchise opportunities with her restaurant start-up than scheduling sex for conception. Instead, Lance finds comfort and connection with Wren, who introduces him to yoga and tan-trie sex. Wren is married to Alec, a confident, egotistical businessman who happens to be Darlene's business partner. It's a modern-day tinderbox that somehow fails to ignite. Lance's ten-year-old daughter, Bella, is unconvincingly precocious; Wren's son Sam is sweet but simple.