April 1, 1959
The Assessment of an Amateur
I stopped drawing large drafts on my future when I was just shy of thirty—the usual age, I think, for those with the artistic temperament; for that, I suppose, is […]
January 1, 1959
The Other Woman
No thought of the other woman, at first, so much as entered her head. When a busy man, all in a breath, becomes helpless, a great many things must be […]
July 1, 1958
The Drowning
The old people were standing in a self-protecting group Ion the small triangle of beach. After all, this portion had been designated as their beach. Yet they seemed to be […]
July 1, 1958
The Last Class
In the cab, leaving his apartment at The Faculty Club, Clark thought of it not as a party evening. It would be a record-listening session, an extra, optional class, the […]
April 1, 1958
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time
Their house alone would not have made you think there was anything so awfully wrong with Mr. Dorset or his old maid sister. But certain things about the way both […]
January 1, 1958
The Season’s Dying
He saw the diner while it was yet a good distance away, set boxlike beside the highway upon the harsh open land. “Thank God,” he said. He spoke to himself, […]
October 1, 1957
The Admirer
Further polarizing the green sea-light of Venice around and between their red and black heads, the two young women got up from the cafe table. They gathered their bags and […]
October 1, 1957
The Anaesthetic Revelation of Herone Liddell
I. “IN THAT MOST BODILY HOUSE” The first thing of importance that had happened to Herone Liddell following the accident of his birth was a near-fatal tumble he had taken, […]
July 1, 1957
La Bataille des Fleurs
It was a damned shame she had to be sick today, their first day here and the day of the parade besides— He had carefully lost the thought in the […]
July 1, 1957
A Delayed Hearing
Miss Mindhart’s taste in personal adornment, Mrs. Haxton’s taste in religions, these may be said to have done the damage. Miss Mindenhart, a large, greying woman who may once have […]
April 1, 1957
A Few Drinks with Alcock and Brown
One or two people were still walking about with no overcoats on, as if summer had not yet come to an end. But as Benlowes came down the stairs at […]
April 1, 1957
Legend of Two Swimmers
Everyone must have a worthless uncle; it is a part of life. At ten I knew all there was to know about remittance-men and black-sheep younger sons shipped off to […]