Collected Stories

               Time is the school in which we learn,

               Time is the fire in which we burn.

                                         –Delmore Schwartz

As playwright Donald Margulies notes, “Mentors and protégés exist everywhere.” Collected Stories explores the relationship between such a pair: Ruth Steiner, writer and professor, and her student, Lisa Morrison. As time passes, we follow these two women in their triumphs and troubles as their relationship develops and deteriorates. From Lisa’s first novel being published to Ruth’s feelings of betrayal, we are left with questions of what it means to experience loss and who has the right to tell our stories.