Cuppa Joe

A Longish but Deeply Lighthearted Short Story.

Valori Maresco
Storymaker
Published in
20 min readMar 6, 2020

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Author Note: This story evolved from an assignment in a Masterclass short story class I took with Joyce Carol Oates. The assignment was to write a scene with four characters. But my scene turned into a story. Just couldn’t help myself!

“Fine. I’ll plan on picking you up around 4:00.”

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Valori Maresco
Storymaker

I have a love/hate relationship with writing. Love writing and hate that I don’t have time to do more of it. Find more of my writing at valmaresco.substack.com.