Two quirky little short stories - another of the Picador Shots (little booklets containing one or two short stories). The blurb on the back says:

"A lonely married woman. A disturbing encounter with a drunken poet at a dinner party. Why, afterwards, is she so irrestistibly drawn to his animal surrogate, a huge, tawny-eyed dog?

An ageing but successful businessman. A woman he had loved and lost twenty years before. What will happen when they arrange to meet at the Palm Court Hotel after all this time?"

I quite enjoyed them, but never quite 'got' the first one. Not at all sure what the dog was supposed to represent, but maybe I'm endowing the story with more depth than was intended. ( )