Three stories
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Joanne McLean (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Lettie Rogers
Abstract: The afternoon was cold. The sun lay flat and white on the ground; the few cars against the curbs, the low buildings, and the day-blank streetlamps made Iong shadows on the street. The November sun, low in the afternoon sky, looked warm, but it was cold. Laurie looked down the street at the long shadows. She thought how cold it was in the shadows—colder even than it had been riding her bicycle up the hill from school. She had ridden fast in the wind, and her breath had come in white puffs. She remembered telling herself that it was not necessary to hold the bars so hard in her hands. Laurie stretched her fingers out in front of her now, but they kept going back in a tight ball, as they had been on the oars. She was standing in the half-shelter of the newspaper office doorway and she could hear a low humming sound, of things going on, in the office. She took the cold brass knob of the door in her hands, but he did not turn it. Miss Ruth would be there, inside the office. Laurie had come today because of that, because Miss Ruth was the only one left now.
Three stories
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Created on 1/1/1951
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Honors Project
- Language: English
- Date: 1951