A ballet dancer from Chile has to leave for political reasons and come to America. A trained gynecologist lets herself be drawn into a highly inappropriate relationship which entails what might be called psychological mutilation.About the Author: Award-winning D.C. based writer K.M.Kaung is a political economist who is originally from Burma and holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held a Fulbright Fellowship, was a Pew Finalist in Fiction twice and also won the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Academy of American Poets. The Lovers was first published in the Wild River Review. This is the second edition of both stories.