Morrison's only published short story follows two girls, Twyla and Roberta, who meet in a children's shelter and later cross paths repeatedly as adults. One is white and one is Black, but the story deliberately never says which is which. This invites readers to examine their own assumptions about race and class. Through brief, charged encounters over decades, it considers memory, friendship and what we think we know about other people. It first appeared in 1983 in an anthology.