Short Stories and Poems

Really, it was not a success as a story. Far too skeletal, too unfinished. He held the notion then that he should leave the reader totally alone with a single incident, an incident free of narrative adornment or psychological probing. He trusted in the poignancy of the incident to carry the load of the basic poetry in life's common experiences. The work is very short. I trust that I will not weary my reader if I reproduce it: