Contemporary Romance

Saturday, Maybe

by Clara Mendoza

One sunflower, every Saturday, "para kay Lola" — except nobody's lola needs a sunflower a week, and by the fourth market day Ana has done the math. A courtship conducted at a flower stall, one wrapped stem and one rationed question at a time, until the morning it rains sideways and somebody shows up anyway, holding a thermos. Clara Mendoza's gentlest, surest romance: the whole plot is two people slowly retiring the word maybe.