Salt air… the rust on your door… the pools are closing, and we’re indulging in end of summer melancholy. This attitude pervades the episode, from Claire’s account of her terrible horrible no good very bad weekend that actually sounds perfectly pleasant, to Molly’s dissection of Hal Ebbott’s bruising debut novel Among Friends, to our own writing exercise of the week: summer short stories. We also cover Tia William’s Seven Days in June, The Lost Boys, Don’t Say Good Luck, and a balloon technology you wouldn’t believe.