“To tell a truly morose story is not that hard. To be witty and playful and joyful is an intentional choice.” Photo: Michelle Groskopf It would be hard enough to perform an emergency appendectomy on your coworker-slash-lover without requiring the aid of your romantic rival who is also your coworker. It would be hard enough to do surgery as a throuple if you weren’t also doing it on a cruise ship keening violently in the eye of a hurricane, and the ship is being steered by a First Mate high on