"Story, with Bird," in this week's issue, features both a bird and a couple whose relationship is fracturing.
But Melody Road should come with a trigger warning for anyone whose relationship is nearing the rocks.
The plot will revolve around an engaged couple, Mike and Sally, whose relationship is frayed by his obsession with soccer.
Other recurring characters include a pregnant woman (Moon Sori) and her husband (Kwon Hyehyo), whose relationship is unsettled by Anne's presence.
Another couple whose relationship is complicated by war is at the center of Kathryn and Stuart Immonen's MOVING PICTURES (Top Shelf, paper, $14.95).
As supporting characters in the play, each is connected to Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, whose relationship is traced from loathing to deep friendship.
Hepburn and Albert Finney are both superb as the couple whose relationship is depicted in five road trips they take to the south of France.
Isaach De Bankolé and Danai Gurira play the central couple, whose relationship is tested by their own confusion and the expectations of the older generation.
In a previous novel, "The Bradshaw Variations," she did just that, writing about a couple whose relationship is compromised by the husband's decision to stay home with their daughter while the wife resumes a full-time professorship.
And for the couple, whose relationship is forged in fire and ice, a honeymoon — hiking Nepal, or perhaps skiing the Alps — won't come until after the firefighting season ends in the fall.
Your story in this week's issue, "Sleep," is narrated by an Irish writer whose relationship is put at risk by the nightmares he has about the death of his brother.
