Junket

Can healing crystals cure climate change? Of course not. But a last-minute New Age retreat does start to cut through one writer’s cynicism in this rejuvenating short story for anyone weary of the 21st century’s excesses and ills, from three-time National Book Award finalist Lauren Groff.

In her new affecting, and all-too-topical Scribd Original story Junket, Lauren Groff drops her heroine — a writer not only battling the challenges of the 21st century but also her own demons — straight onto the lap of some serious luxury: a high-end spa in the Arizona desert. 

She’s there to do a book talk, lend “a tang of the intellectual” to a wellness retreat for the well-to-do, and relax, but that’s a lot harder than it looks for a woman on the edge.