NEIL HOVEY CAME FOR ME wearing a good suit. He parked his father’s gray Chrysler on the dirt ... Read more
Literary Fiction Short Stories
Total Stories: 34
Come to think of it, I saw my father cry only once. It was at the Alton train ... Read more
Tub had been waiting for an hour in the falling snow. He paced the sidewalk to keep warm ... Read more
_In Memory of C.D.K._ On Christmas Eve around 1942, when I was a boy, after having the traditional ... Read more
It was one of those midsummer Sundays when everyone sits around saying, “I drank too much last night.” You might ... Read more
The first of April came dark and stormy, with silver whips of lightning cracking open the lowering clouds ... Read more
For the fourth time in as many years, they were confronted with the problem of what birthday present ... Read more
Rain was fallingit had fallen steadily through the nightbut the sky showed promise of fairer weather. As the ... Read more
I was just going into my tailor’s in Sackville Street, when who should be coming out of the ... Read more
I The secret history of the Ebag marriage is now printed for the first time. The Ebag family, ... Read more
I The prologue to this somewhat dramatic history was of the simplest. The affair came to a climax, ... Read more
I When I was dying I had no fear. I was simply indifferent, partly, no doubt, through exhaustion ... Read more
