February 1980 Issue [Fiction] Words are deeds Download PDF Adjust Share A short story by Paul Theroux, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags Fiction Man-woman relationships More from Paul Theroux Two Lunches You’re seldom suspicious when you’re happy, and so I didn’t realize that the whole awful business was about to start when Vita said, “It’s been ages since you had lunch… Haleiwa, Hawaii When people in Hawaii first learned of North Korea’s latest threat — that it might soon launch a preemptive strike that could obliterate our lovely islands with a nuclear bomb… Our raccoon year Adjust Share