Jessamyn West

Sie war immer so unentschieden wie das Laub im Wind", sagte ihr Bruder Charlie über Leafy Rivers, die eigentlich Mary hieß - doch der Spitzname Leafy, der auf diese Redensart anspielte, war seit der Kindheit an ihr hängengeblieben. Jetzt war sie jung verheiratet und erwartete ihr erstes Kind,...

INTRODUCTIONThe view is less frequently encountered today than formerly that a short story is (and, by implication, properly so) a condensed novel, a work that its author has for one cause or another failed to extend to a more imposing length. It is generally recognized, rather, that the short...

I Blix's letter came addressed to my maiden name, Tasmania Murphy. This wasn't Blix's way of saying, "Whatever your name may be now." I've had only two husbands; and I've been Mrs. Pete Orcino for the last twenty years. No, that slip of the pen came out of Blix's remembrance as she wrote of the...