Short-a-Day: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's "Medea"
Originally published in Harper's, May 2011. Personal satisfaction rating (out of 100): 45. [Translated from the Russian by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers]"This is an awful story and it began with me taking a taxi," reads the first line, admitting from the get-go that it's taking a casual approach with terrible things. Had she chosen a title with less import than that of the standin for all scorn…