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There is a short story by an author I don't know. It is a culture where men have taken over cooking and house chores, and women are forced to go out and get 'real' jobs and sit in the living room telling stories of how it used to be. It's very slipstreamy--I would call it SF, hands down no question, but I read it in a collection of short stories in my english class. I haven't a clue what the collection was, but I think it may have had "The Things they carried in it," and know it had one about snow and wickedness that I keep looking for once a year, and yet never remember (it's set in the west in the 1800s, and I want to say it's called either a place name or 'Storm of the Century", but I'm supposed to be working so I can't look it up.) , and I would not be surprised if it had a Margaret Atwood story in there because I keep trying to assign this one to her. It may be from this book: http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0684857960-0 so if anyone has a copy and can tell me for sure, I'd be so grateful.

So, any takers on what the story is called?