A Confederate General from Big Sur
The girls had come from a small college somewhere in eastern washington, and at first they allowed their attentions to be taken up by college and post-college types, mostly the clean-cuts.
then as the girls grew more sophisticated, as they acclimated themselves to the throbbing pulse of a cosmopolitan city, their attentions naturally switched to bus drivers.
And then:
- Jesus’ Son Everything down there but the curtain was red. it was like a movie of something that was actually happening. black...
- Life of Pi It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, thought it...
- The Grapes of Wrath Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled worried eyes, with restless...
- Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer Post addressed to Jonathan Fitch came through my letter-box, and that was who I was. I had a National Insurance...
- The History of Mr Polly The essential thing of those fifteen long years of shopkeeping is Mr Polly, well athwart the counter of his rather...
- The Tale of the Unknown Island And the sailors, she asked, No one came, as you can see, But did some at least say they would...