Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Autumn 1965
The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet
What a better place to begin than in a hamlet we know as Winesburg, Ohio. An old man with a white mustache lies in bed there, subject to brooding notions […]
Fiction
Autumn 1954
The Safe Place
In his fifty-third year a chemical blast burned the beard from the Colonel’s face, and gave to his eyes their characteristic powdery blue. Some time later his bushy eyebrows came […]
Fiction
Winter 1949
A Man of Caliber
On summer nights, the window open, he could lie there and hear the hum of the wires, or the click when the semaphore changed from red to green. Then he […]