Nobody Shoulders A Rifle In Defense Of

A Bird In The Hand Is A Certainty, But A Bird In The Bush May Sing.

It Would Seem Evident, Therefore, That The Secret Of The American Short Story Was The Treatment Of Characteristic American Life, With Absolute Knowledge Of Its Peculiarities And Sympathy With Its Method.

Crude At First [the Short Story] Received A Literary Polish In The Press, But Its Dominant Quality Remained. It Was Concise And Condense, Yet Suggestive. It Was Delightfully Extravagant - Or A Miracle Of Understatement

Never A Tear Bedims The Eye That Time And Patience Will Not Dry.

Your Voices Break And Falter In The Darkness, Break, Falter, And Are Still.