The Short Story Hour - Volume 6
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This comes to you courtesy of Miniature Masterpieces who have an excellent range of quality short stories from the masters of the craft. Do search for Miniature Masterpieces at any digital store for further information.
This Hour opens with Here We Are by Dorothy Parker which is followed by Richard Guilliene and his Haunted Orchard. And we finish the hour with Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Devil in Manuscript.
Here We Are by Dorothy Parker
The Haunted Orchard by Richard Gallienne
The Devil in Manuscript by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Short Story Hour - Volume 6 - Dorothy Parker
The Short Story Hour. Volume 6
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Here We Are by Dorothy Parker
The young man in the new blue suit finished arranging the glistening luggage in tight corners of the Pullman compartment. The train had leaped at curves and bounced along straightaways, rendering balance a praiseworthy achievement and a sporadic one; and the young man had pushed and hoisted and tucked and shifted the bags with concentrated care.
Nevertheless, eight minutes for the settling of two suitcases and a hat-box is a long time.
He sat down, leaning back against bristled green plush, in the seat opposite the girl in beige. She looked as new as a peeled egg. Her hat, her fur, her frock, her gloves were glossy and stiff with novelty. On the arc of the thin, slippery sole of one beige shoe was gummed a tiny oblong of white paper, printed with the price set and paid for that slipper and its fellow, and the name of the shop that had dispensed them.
She had been staring raptly out of the window, drinking in the big weathered signboards that extolled the phenomena of codfish without bones and screens no rust could corrupt. As the young man sat down, she turned politely from the pane, met his eyes, started a smile and got it about half done, and rested her gaze just above his right shoulder.
Well!
the young man said.
Well!
she said.
Well, here we are,
he said.
Here we are,
she said. Aren’t we?
I should say we were,
he said. Yep. Here we are.
Well!
she said.
Well!
he said. Well. How does it feel to be an old married lady?
Oh, it’s too soon to ask me that,
she said. At least—I mean. Well, I mean, goodness, we’ve only been married about three hours, haven’t we?
The young man studied his wrist watch as if he were just acquiring the knack of reading time.
We have been married,
he said, exactly two hours and twenty six minutes.
My,
she said. It seems like longer.
No,
he said. It isn’t hardly half past six yet.
It seems like later,
she said. I guess it’s because it starts getting dark so early.
It does, at that,