I do love a short story and no one does it better than Margaret Atwood! Three elderly authors and academics who enjoy meeting to engage in lively discussion and cocktails hatch a plan to avenge their friend who was targeted and professionally mistreated decades before by four male peers. The vindictiveness with which they plot their revenge is hilarious and delightful. They soon discover that it might be more difficult to administer their punishment than they anticipated, and that life has a way of evening the score.