One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of ... Read more
Modernist Literature Short Stories
Total Stories: 130
THE MARVELLOUS THING IS THAT ITS painless,” he said. “That’s how you know when it starts.” “Is it ... Read more
I WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort ... Read more
The hills across the valley of the Ebro* were long and white. On this side there was no ... Read more
There was a little snow on the ground, and the church clock had just struck midnight. Hampstead in ... Read more
Minarets stuck up in the rain out of Adrianople across the mud flats. The carts were jammed for ... Read more
It was a frightfully hot day. We’d jammed an absolutely perfect barricade across the bridge. It was simply ... Read more
The first matador got the horn through his sword hand and the crowd hooted him out. The second ... Read more
Maera lay still, his head on his arms, his face in the sand. He felt warm and sticky ... Read more
While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces at Fossalta, he lay very flat and sweated and ... Read more
They hanged Sam Cardinella at six o’clock in the morning in the corridor of the county jail. The ... Read more
We were in a garden in Mons. Young Buckley came in with his patrol from across the river. ... Read more
