1. Júlia rests her hand on Stefan's forearm at a pavement table in Vila Madalena after rain. The Question She Kept Júlia chose a bar with plastic chairs, greasy paper napkins, and a waiter who shouted her name from halfway down the pavement. Friday’s rain had left the street shining. By the time Stefan arrived, the heat had returned; she could feel sweat beneath the chain at her neck.

    The Question She Kept

    Júlia rests her hand on Stefan's forearm at a pavement table in Vila Madalena after rain.
  2. Klaus and Thaís share dinner beside an open restaurant window, his notebook closed on a spare chair. Dinner Without a Notebook On Thursday, Klaus found the receipt folded inside his notebook. A tiny volume knob, drawn in Thaís’s quick, assured strokes, sat above the words NOT LINEAR. He ran his thumb over the ink. At the next desk someone was asking for a revised cost forecast, but for a moment he heard Saturday’s waiter, the scrape of a chair, her laugh spilling out through the restaurant window.

    Dinner Without a Notebook

    Klaus and Thaís share dinner beside an open restaurant window, his notebook closed on a spare chair.